title: Adiabatic self-tuning in a silicon microdisk optical resonator.
abstract: We demonstrate a method for adiabatically self-tuning a silicon microdisk resonator. This mechanism is not only able to sensitively probe the fast nonlinear cavity dynamics, but also provides various optical functionalities like pulse compression, shaping, and tunable time delay.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. linq@caltech.edu
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Michael
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Painter
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D008956:Models, Chemical; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012825:Silicon / Q000737:chemistry*; D014159:Transducers; D014732:Vibration
chemical_list: D012825:Silicon