Analysis of Dissipation Mechanisms and Thermal Dynamics in Nanophotonic Resonators Using Thermo-Optical Effect

WANG, MINGKANG; PEREZ MORELO, DIEGO; AKSYUK, VLADIMIR

Conferencia; Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO); 2021

Optical Society of America

We present a robust method to distinguish the absorption loss from other loss mechanisms in a nanophotonic resonator by characterizing its thermo-optical nonlinearity. Using this method, we analyze ten modes of drastically different quality-factors.