Abstract
We successfully fabricated whispering gallery mode cavities made of crystalline material using the laser-heated pedestal growth method. The crystalline feature was maintained and the Q-factor of our fabricated hexagonal sapphire resonator was about 8.5×103.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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