Wang, Zijie, Crespo-Ballesteros, Manuel, Collins, Christopher, Yang, Yong, Zhang, Qi, Zhang, Xiaobei and Sumetsky, Michael (2025). Dynamic fabrication method of SNAP microresonators. Optics Letters, 50 (9), pp. 3042-3045.
Abstract
Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (SNAP) technology has demonstrated the record subangstrom fabrication precision of optical microresonators and resonant photonic circuits at the optical fiber surface. However, fabrication errors arising from fluctuations of temperature, inscription parameters, alignment inconsistencies, and other factors did not allow researchers to achieve the subangstrom precision without sophisticated postprocessing. Here we show that the key fabrication method of SNAP structures – CO2 laser beam optical fiber annealing – suffers from significant fiber displacements which may introduce a few percent fabrication errors. To suppress the effects of misalignment, we develop a dynamic fabrication method employing a translating beam exposure and demonstrate its excellent precision. The effective fiber radius variation of ~ 10 nm is introduced with an error of ~ 0.1 angstrom. We suggest that the remaining fabrication errors can be attributed to laser power fluctuations.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.562332 |
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Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT) College of Engineering & Physical Sciences Aston University (General) |
Funding Information: | National Natural Science Foundation of China (62205192, 62405175); China Scholarship Council (202306890079); Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2022-014); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/W002868/1, EP/X03772X/1). |
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Publication ISSN: | 1539-4794 |
Last Modified: | 19 May 2025 16:01 |
Date Deposited: | 02 May 2025 14:18 |
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Published Date: | 2025-04-29 |
Accepted Date: | 2025-04-05 |
Authors: |
Wang, Zijie
Crespo-Ballesteros, Manuel ( ![]() Collins, Christopher Yang, Yong Zhang, Qi Zhang, Xiaobei Sumetsky, Michael ( ![]() |