2013 Publications

Jiang Li, Hansuek Lee, and Kerry J. Vahala,
"Microwave Synthesizer Using an on-Chip Brillouin Oscillator,"

accepted by Nature Communications (2013)

Tong Chen, Hansuek Lee, and Kerry J. Vahala,
"Thermal stress in silica-on-silicon disk resonators,"

Applied Physics Letters, 102, 031113 (2013)

2012 Publications

Jiang Li, Hansuek Lee, Tong Chen, and Kerry J. Vahala,

“Low-pump-power, low-phase-noise, and microwave to millimeter-wave repetition rate

operation in microcombs,”

Phys. Rev. Lett, 109, 233901 (2012)

Jiang Li, Hansuek Lee, Kiyoul Yang, and Kerry J. Vahala,

“Sideband spectroscopy and dispersion measurement in microcavities,”

Optics Express, 20, 26337-26344 (2012)

Tong Chen, Hansuek Lee, Jiang Li, and Kerry J. Vahala,
"A general design algorithm for low optical loss adiabatic connections in waveguides, "

Optics Express, 20, 22819-22829 (2012)

Jiang Li*, Hansuek Lee*, Tong Chen, and Kerry J. Vahala,

"Characterization of a high coherence, Brillouin microcavity laser on silicon, "

Optics Express, 20, 20170-20180 (2012)

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Hansuek Lee*, Tong Chen*, Jiang Li*, Ki Youl Yang, Seokmin Jeon, Oskar Painter and Kerry J. Vahala,

"Chemically etched ultrahigh-Q wedge-resonator on a silicon chip,"

Nature Photonics, 6, 369–373 (2012)

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Hansuek Lee, Tong Chen, Jiang Li, Oskar Painter, and Kerry J. Vahala,

"Ultra-low-loss optical delay line on a silicon chip,"

Nature Communications 3:867 doi:10.1038/ncomms1876 (2012) 

2011 Publications

Tao Lu, Hansuek Lee, Tong Chen, Steven Herchak, Ji-Hun Kim, Scott E. Fraser, Richard C. Flagan, and Kerry Vahala

"High sensitivity nanoparticle detection using optical microcavities, "

PNAS 108 (15) 5976-5979 (2011)

D. J. Alton, N. P. Stern, Takao Aoki, H. Lee, E. Ostby, K. J. Vahala & H. J. Kimble,

"Strong interactions of single atoms and photons near a dielectric boundary,"

Nature Phys. 7, 159-165 (2011)

Ivan Grudinin, Hansuek Lee, Tong Chen, and Kerry Vahala,

"Compensation of thermal nonlinearity effect in optical resonators,"

Opt. Express 19, 7365-7372 (2011)

2010 Publications

S. Knunz, M. Herrmann, V. Batteiger, et al.

"Injection Locking of a Trapped-Ion Phonon Laser"

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 105, 013004 (2010)

Q. Lin, J. Rosenberg, D. Chang, et al.

"Coherent mixing of mechanical excitations in nano-optomechanical structures"

NATURE PHOTONICS 4, 236-242 (2010)

M. Hossein-Zadeh, K.J. Vahala

"An Optomechanical Oscillator on a Silicon Chip"

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS 16, 276-287 (2010)

I.S. Grudinin, H. Lee, O. Painter and K.J. Vahala

"Phonon laser action in a tunable two-level system"

Physical Review Letters 104, 083901 (2010)

Also read a Viewpoint by J. Khurgin

Nature News: 'Sasers' set to stun

2009 Publications

K. Vahala, M. Herrmann, S. Knünz, V. Batteiger, G. Saathoff, T. W. Hänsch and Th. Udem

"A phonon laser"

Nature Physics 5, 682 - 686 (2009)

I.S. Grudinin and  K.J. Vahala

"Thermal instability of a compound resonator"

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 16, pp. 14088-14097

T.J. Kippenberg, A.L. Tchebotareva, J. Kalkman, A. Polman, K. J. Vahala

"Purcell-Factor-Enhanced Scattering from Si Nanocrystals in an Optical Microcavity"

Physical Review Letters 103 (2) 027406 July 10, 2009

Matt Eichenfield, Ryan Camacho, Jasper Chan, Kerry J. Vahala and Oskar Painter

"A picogram- and nanometre-scale photonic-crystal optomechanical cavity"

Nature online advanced publication  doi:10.1038/nature08061.

Eric P. Ostby and Kerry J. Vahala

"Yb-doped glass microcavity laser operation in water"

Optics Letters 34, 1153-1155 (2009)

Takao Aoki, A.S. Parkins, D.J. Alton, C.A. Regal, Barak Dayan, E. Ostby, K.J. Vahala, and H.J. Kimble
"Efficient Routing of Single Photons by One Atom and a Microtoroidal Cavity"

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 083601 (2009)

Tao Lu  Lan Yang , Rob V.A. van Loon , Albert Polman, and Kerry J. Vahala
"On-chip green silica upconversion microlaser"
Optics Letters 34, 482-484 (2009)

Bumki Min, Eric Ostby, Volker Sorger, Erick Ulin-Avila, Lan Yang, Xiang Zhang and Kerry Vahala,

"High-Q surface-plasmon-polariton whispering-gallery microcavity"

Nature 457, 455-458 (22 January 2009)

2008 Publications

· Mani Hossein-Zadeh and K.J. Vahala
" Observation of injection locking in an optomechanical RF oscillator"
Applied Physics Letters, Volume 93,191115, November 2008.

· Kerry J. Vahala
" Back-action limit of linewidth in an optomechanical oscillator"

Physical Review A, Volume 78,023832, August 2008.

· T.J. Kippenberg and Kerry J. Vahala

 "Cavity Optomechanics: Back-Action at the Mesoscale"

Science, Volume 321,1172-1176, August 2008.

Abstract

· Tal Carmon, Harald G. L. Schwefel, Lan Yang, Mark Oxborrow, A. Douglas Stone, and Kerry J. Vahala
" Static Envelope Patterns in Composite Resonances Generated by Level Crossing in Optical Toroidal Microcavities"
Physical Review Letters, Volume 100,10935, March 2008.

• B. Dayan, A.S. Parkins, T. Aoki, E.P. Ostby, K.J. Vahala and H.J. Kimble
  "A Photon Turnstile Dynamically Regulated by One Atom"
  Science, Volume 319, No. 5866, February 2008, Page(s):1062-1065.
• M. Hossein-Zadeh and K.J. Vahala
  "Photonic RF Down-Converter Based on Optomechanical Oscillation"
  IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 20, No. 4, February 2008, Page(s):234-236.

2007 Publications

• T.J. Kippenberg and K.J. Vahala
  "Cavity Opto-Mechanics"
  Optics Express, Volume 15, No. 25, December 2007.
• E. Ostby, L. Yang and K. J. Vahala
  "Ultralow threshold Yb³⁺:SiO₂ glass laser fabricated by the solgel process"
  Optics Letters, Volume 32, No. 18, September 2007.

• B. Min, L. Yang, and K. J. Vahala
  "Perturbative analytic theory of an ultrahigh-Q toroidal microcavity"
  Physical Review A, Volume 76, No. 013823, October 2007.

• M. Hossein-Zadeh and K. J. Vahala
  "Importance of intrinsic-Q in microring-based optical filters and dispersion-compensation devices"
  Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 19, issue 14, July 2007.

• A. M. Armani, R. P. Kulkarni, S. E. Fraser, R. C. Flagan, and K. J. Vahala
  "Label-free, single-molecule detection with optical microcavities"
  published in Science Express, July 5 2007. (link to pdf)

• M. Hossein-Zadeh and K. J. Vahala
  "Observation of optical spring effect in a microtoroidal optomechanical resonator"
  Optics Letters, Volume 32, issue 12, June 2007.

• A. M. Armani, A. Srinivasan, and K. J. Vahala
  "Soft lithographic fabrication of high Q polymer microcavity arrays"
  Nano Letters, Volume 7, issue 6, June 2007.

• T. Carmon, S. Y. T. Wang, E. P. Ostby, and K. J. Vahala
  "Wavelength-independent coupler from fiber to an on-chip cavity, demonstrated over an 850nm span"
  Optics Express, Volume 15, issue 12, June 2007.

• T. Carmon and K. J. Vahala
  "Visible continuous emission from a silica microphonic device by third-harmonic generation"
  Nature Physics, Volume 3, 430-435, May 2007.

• T. Carmon, M. C. Cross and K. J. Vahala
  "Chaotic quivering of micron-scaled on-chip resonators excited by centrifugal optical pressure"
  Physical Review Letters, Volume 98, 167203, April 2007.

• T. Carmon and K. J. Vahala
  "Modal spectroscopy of optoexcited vibrations of a micron-scaled on-chip resonator at greater than 1GHz frequency"
  Physical Review Letters, Volume 98, 123901, March 2007.

• M. Hossein-Zadeh and K. J. Vahala
  "Free ultra-high-Q microtoroid: a tool for designing photonic devices"
  Optics Express, Volume 15, issue 1, January 2007.

2006 Publications

• H. Rokhsari, M. Hossein-Zadeh, A. Hajimiri, and K. J. Vahala
  "Brownian noise in radiation-pressure-driven micromechnical oscillators"
  Applied Physics Letters, Volume 89, Art. No 261109, December 2006.

• A. Schliesser, P. Del’Haye, N. Nooshi, K. J. Vahala, and T. J. Kippenberg
  "Radiation pressure cooling of a micromechanical oscillator using dynamical backaction"
  Physical Review Letters, Volume 97, Art. No. 243905, December 2006.

• T. J. Kippenberg, J. Kalkman, A. Polman, and K. J. Vahala
  "Demonstration of an erbium-doped microdisk laser on a silicon chip"
  Physical Review A, Volume 74, Art. No. 051802, November 2006.

• B. Min, S. Kim, K. Okamoto, L. Yang, A. Scherer, H. A. Atwater, K. J. Vahala
  "Ultralow threshold on-chip microcavity nanocrystal quantum dot lasers"
  Applied Physics Letters, Volume 89, November 2006.

• M. Hossein-Zadeh, K. J. Vahala
  "Fiber-taper coupling to Whispering-Gallery modes of fluidic resonators embedded in a liquid medium"
  Optics Express, Volume 14, issue 22, October 2006.

• T. Aoki, B. Dayan, E. Wilcut, W. P. Bowen, A. S. Parkins, T. J. Kippenberg, K. J. Vahala, and H. J. Kimble
  "Observation of strong coupling between one atom and a monolithic microresonator"
  Nature, Volume 442, issue 712, October 2006.

• M. Hossein-Zadeh, H. Rokhsari, A. Hajimiri, and K. J. Vahala, 
  "Characterization of a radiation-pressure-driven micromechanical oscillator"
  Physical Review A, Volume 74, Art. No. 023813, July 2006.

• Y. B. Park, B. Min, K. J. Vahala, and H. A. Atwater,
  "Integration of single-crystal LiNbO₃ thin film on silicon by laser irradiation and ion implantation-induced layer transfer"
  Advanced Materials, Volume 18, issue 12, June 2006.

• A. M. Armani and K. J. Vahala,
  "Heavy water detection using ultra-high-Q microcavities"
  Optics Letters, Volume 31, issue 12, June 2006.

• J. Kalkman, A. Tchebotareva, A. Polman, T. J. Kippenberg, B. Min, and K. J. Vahala, 
  "Fabrication and characterization of erbium-doped toroidal microcavity lasers"
  Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 99, 083103, 2006.

• J. Kalkman, A. Polman, T. J. Kippenberg, K. J. Vahala, and M. L. Brongersma,
  "Erbium-implanted silica microsphere laser"
  Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B, Volume 242, issue 1-2, January 2006.

• W. Liang, L. Yang, J. K. S. Poon, Y. Y. Huang, K. J. Vahala, and A. Yariv,
  "Transmission characteristics of a Fabry-Perot etalon-microtoroid resonator coupled system"
  Optics Letters, Volume 31, issue 4, February 2006.

• H. Rokhsari, T. J. Kippenberg, T. Carmon, and K. J. Vahala, 
  "Theoretical and Experimental Study of Radiation Pressure-Induced Mechanical Oscillations (Parametric Instability) in Optical Microcavities"
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Volume 12, issue 1, January/February 2006.

2005 Publications

• B. Min, L. Yang, and K. J. Vahala,
  "Controlled transition between parametric and Raman oscillations in ultrahigh-Q silica toroidal microcavities"
  Applied Physics Letters, Volume 87, issue 18, October 2005.

• A. M. Armani, D. K. Armani, B. Min, K. J. Vahala, and S. M. Spillane
  "Ultra-high-Q microcavity operation in H₂O and D₂O"
  Applied Physics Letters, Volume 87, issue 15, October 2005.

• H. Rokhsari, T. J. Kippenberg, T. Carmon, and K. J. Vahala
  “Radiation-pressure-driven micro-mechanical oscillator”
  Optics Express, Volume 13, No. 14, July 2005.

• T. J. Kippenberg, H. Rokhsari, T. Carmon, A. Scherer, and K. J. Vahala
  “Analysis of Radiation-Pressure Induced Mechanical Oscillation of an Optical Microcavity”
  Physical Review Letters, Volume 95, 033901, July 2005.

• T. Carmon, H. Rokhsari, L. Yang, T. J. Kippenberg, and K. J. Vahala
  “Temporal Behavior of Radiation-Pressure-Induced Vibrations of an Optical Microcavity Phonon Mode”
  Physical Review Letters, Volume 94, 223902, June 2005.

• T. Carmon, T. J. Kippenberg, L. Yang, H. Rokhsari, S. M. Spillane, and K. J. Vahala
  “Feedback control of ultra-high-Q microcavities: application to micro-Raman lasers and microparametric oscillators”
  Optics Express, Volume 13, No. 9, May 2005.

• L. Yang, T. Carmon, B. K. Min, S. M. Spillane, and K. J. Vahala
  “Erbium-doped and Raman microlasers on a silicon chip fabricated by the sol-gel process”
  Applied Physics Letters, Volume 86, 091114, February 2005.

• S. M. Spillane, T. J. Kippenberg, K. J. Vahala, K. W. Goh, E. Wilcut, and H. J. Kimble
  “Ultrahigh-Q toroidal microresonators for cavity quantum electrodynamics”
  Physics Review A, Volume 71, No. 1, Art. No. 013817, January 2005.

• H. Rohksari and K. J. Vahala
  “Observation of Kerr nonlinearity in microcavities at room temperature”
  Optics Letters, Volume 30, No. 4, 427-429 February 15, 2005.

2004 Publications

• T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, B. K. Min, and K. J. Vahala
  “Theoretical and experimental study of stimulated and cascaded Raman scattering in ultrahigh-Q optical microcavities”
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Volume 10, No. 5, 1219-1228, September-October 2004.

• T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, and K. J. Vahala
  “Demonstration of ultra-high-Q small mode volume toroid microcavities on a chip”
  Applied Physics Letters, Volume 85, No. 25, 6113-6115 December 20, 2004.

• D. K. Armani, B. K. Min, A. L. Martin, and K. J. Vahala
  “Electrical thermo-optic tuning of ultrahigh-Q microtoroid resonators”
  Applied Physics Letters, Volume 85, No. 22, 5439-5441 November 29, 2004.

• H. Rokhsari, S. M. Spillane, and K. J. Vahala
  “Loss characterization in microcavities using the thermal bistability effect”
  Applied Physics Letters, Volume 85, No. 15, 3029-3031 October 11, 2004.

• T. Carmon, L. Yang, and K. J. Vahala
  “Dynamical thermal behavior and thermal self-stability of microcavities”
  Optics Express, Volume 12, No. 20, 4742-4750 October 4, 2004.

• B. K. Min, T. J. Kippenberg, L. Yang, K. J. Vahala, J. Kalkman, and A. Polman
  “Erbium-implanted high-Q silica toroidal microcavity laser on a silicon chip”
  Physical Review A, Volume 70, No. 3, Art. No. 033803, September 2004.

• T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, and K. J. Vahala
  “Kerr-nonlinearity optical parametric oscillation in an ultrahigh-Q toroid microcavity”
  Physical Review Letters, Volume 93, No. 8, 083904 August 20, 2004.

• H. Rokhsari, and K. J. Vahala
  "Ultralow Loss, High Q, Four Port Resonant Couplers for Quantum Optics and Photonics"
  Physical Review Letters, Volume 92, No. 25, 253905, June 2004.

• T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, D. K. Armani, and K. J. Vahala
  "Ultralow-threshold microcavity Raman laser on a microelectronic chip"
  Optics Letters, Volume 29, No. 11, 1224-1227, June 2004.

• A. L. Martin, D. K. Armani, L. Yang and K. J. Vahala
  "Replica-molded high-Q polymer microresonators"
  Optics Letters, Volume 29, No 6, 533-535, March 2004.

• A. Polman, B. Min, J. Kalkman, T. J. Kippenberg and K. J. Vahala
  "Ultra-low-threshold erbium-implanted toroidal microlaser on silicon"
  Applied Physics Letters, vol.84, No. 7, 1037-1039 February 2004.

2003 Publications

• B. Min, T. J. Kippenberg and K. J. Vahala
  "Compact, fiber-compatible, cascaded Raman laser"
  Optics Letters, vol. 28, No. 17, September 2003.

• K. J. Vahala
  "Optical microcavities"
  Nature, vol. 424, No. 6950, August 2003.

• L. Yang, D. K. Armani and K. J. Vahala
  "Fiber-coupled Erbium Microlasers on a chip"
  Applied Physics Letters, vol. 83, No. 5, 825-826, August 2003.

• T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, D. K. Armani, and K. J. Vahala
  "Fabrication and coupling to planar high-Q silica disk microcavities"
  Applied Physics Letters, vol. 83, No. 4, 797-799, July 2003.

• S. M. Spillane, T. J. Kippenberg, O. J. Painter, and K. J. Vahala
  "Ideality in a Fiber-Taper-Coupled Microresonator System for Application to Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics"
  Physical Review Letters, vol. 91, No. 4, 043902, July 2003.

• L. Yang and K. J. Vahala
  "Gain functionalization of silica microresonators"
  Optics Letters, vol. 28, No. 8, 592-594, April 2003.

• D. K. Armani, T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane and K. J. Vahala
  "Ultra-high-Q toroid microcavity on a chip"
  Nature, vol. 421, pp. 925-929, 27 February 2003.

2002 Publications

• T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane and K. J. Vahala,
  "Modal coupling in traveling-wave resonators"
  Optics Letters, vol. 27, No. 19, pp. 1669, October 2002.

• S. M. Spillane, T. J. Kippenberg, and K. J. Vahala
  "Ultralow-threshold Raman laser using a spherical dielectric microcavity"
  Nature, vol. 415, pp. 621-623, 7 February 2002.

2001 Publications

• M. Cai and K. J. Vahala
  "Highly efficient hybrid fiber taper coupled microsphere laser"
  Optics Letters, vol. 26, No. 12, pp. 884-886, June 2001.

• A. Bhardwaj, P. O. Hedekvist, and K. J. Vahala,
  "All-optical logic circuits based on polarization properties of non-degenerate four-wave mixing"
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 657-665, May 2001.

• P. O. Hedekvist, A. Bhardwaj, K. J. Vahala and H. Andersson,
  "Advanced All-Optical Logic on a Spectral Bus"
  Appl. Opt., vol. 40, No. 11, pp. 1761-1766, April 2001.

2000 Publications

• M. Cai, O. Painter, K. J. Vahala and P. C. Sercel,
  "Fiber-coupled microsphere laser"
  Optics Letters, vol. 25, pp. 1430-1432, Oct. 2000.

• M. Cai, O. Painter and K. J. Vahala,
  "Observation of critical coupling in a fiber taper to silica-microsphere whispering gallery mode system"
  Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 74-77, July 2000.

• M. Cai and K. J. Vahala,
  "Highly efficient optical power transfer to whispering gallery modes using a symmetrical dual-coupling configuration"
  Optics Letters, vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 260-262, Feb. 15, 2000.

Papers before 2000