Ultra-High-Q Optical Microcavities

Confinement and manipulation of photons using microcavities have triggered intense research interest in both basic and applied physics for more than a decade. Prominent examples are whispering gallery microcavities which confine photons by means of continuous total internal reflection along a curved and smooth surface. The long photon lifetime, strong field confinement, and in-plane emission characteristics make them promising candidates for enhancing light-matter interactions on a chip. In this book, we will introduce different ultra-high-Q whispering gallery microcavities, and focus on their applications in enhancing light-matter interaction, such as ultralow-threshold microlasing, highly sensitive optical biosensing, nonlinear optics, cavity quantum electrodynamics and cavity optomechanics.Contents: High-Q Lithium Niobate Microcavities and Their Applications (Cheng Wang, Mian Zhang and Marko Lončar)Second-order Nonlinear Effects and Photon Scattering in Ultra-high-Q Crystalline WGMRs (Guoping Lin and Yanne K Chembo)Dissipated Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators (Xu Yi and Kerry Vahala)Non-reciprocity in Optomechanical Resonators (Zhen Shen, Yuan Chen, Chang-Ling Zou and Chun-Hua Dong)Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Chiral Quantum Optics (Michael Scheucher, Jürgen Volz and Arno Rauschenbeutel)Organic Self-assembled Microcavities and Microlasers (Chuang Zhang and Yong Sheng Zhao)Microdisk Lasers: Fundamental Physics and Practical Applications (Qinghai Song)Non-Hermitian Physics and Exceptional Points in High-quality Optical Microresonators (Weijian Chen, Changqing Wang, Bo Peng and Lan Yang)Resonance-assisted Tunneling in Weakly Deformed Microdisk Cavities (Julius Kullig, Chang-Hwan Yi and Jan Wiersig)Ultra-high-Q Asymmetric Microcavity (Yu-Zhong Gu, Li-Kun Chen, Qi-Tao Cao, Qihuang Gong and Yun-Feng Xiao)
Readership: Student of all levels, undergraduate to research fellows, as well as professors and professionals in Optics and Laser Physics studies and field; students/professionals in quantum mechanics, nanomaterials, nanostructures, applied physics with interests in optics and laser physics.Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction;Optical Microcavity;Whispering Gallery Mode0Key Features:This book focuses on ultra-high-Q whispering gallery microcavities, and comprehensively introduces the fundamental physics and various applicationsOver the past few years, there are many new progresses and new topics in whispering gallery microcavity, which are not covered by previous books, but will be included in this bookAuthors of this book are devoted themselves to the related investigation for many years and published various papers in the area