Abstract
Optical resonator-based ultrasound detection plays a significant role in the modern ultrasonography. It consists of two steps including the optical readout of the acoustic wave signal and the electrical demodulation of the acoustic response. In this article, we conduct innovative researches on both of them for improved performance. High quality-factor (Q-factor) chalcogenide glass (ChG) microdisk and microring resonators as optical readout configurations are designed and fabricated. High-precision digital optical frequency comb (DOFC) technique is proposed to monitor the minor resonance frequency shift. The sensitivity up to 2.86 dB/Pa and noise equivalent pressure (NEP) down to 4 Pa are obtained under the 40 KHz ultrasound vibration using a 100-μm radius Ge11.5As24Se64.5 microdisk resonator with the Q-factor of 1.15 × 106. As a proof-of-concept, three cascaded SiNx microring resonators-based ultrasound detector is fabricated and characterized to further validate the versatility of DOFC in the arrayed microcavities. Successful realization of the 3-D ultrasound detection paves the way to the development of high-performance photoacoustic imaging.
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