Buckling free and high optical quality factor large thin rib disk
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2024
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Honari, Shahin
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This thesis investigates the fabrication and characterization of Silica on Silicon (SoS) microcavities, for potential comb generation and sensing applications. In this thesis, novel approaches were introduced on silica-on-silicon microdisks to remove some of the inherent hurdles, namely mitigating the rough surface through chemo-mechanical polishing, and suppressing buckling-induced mechanical instability by introducing a rib disk structure. Quality factors as high as 10₈ were achieved for polished disks. Furthermore using the rib-disk structure, microdisks with thickness smaller than 1.5µm and quality factors as high as 10₇ materialized. By addressing these challenges we unleash the enormous potentials of ultra-high Q silica microdisks in microcomb generation in visible regime and sensing. Finally, a multi-transverse mode dense comb generation scheme on this platform is investigated.