• DocumentCode
    2873518
  • Title

    Fiber-taper coupling to Whispering-Gallery modes of a droplet resonator embedded in a liquid medium

  • Author

    Hossein-Zadeh, Mani ; Vahala, Kerry J.

  • Author_Institution
    T.J. Watson Lab. of Appl. Phys., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    For the first time we demonstrate efficient coupling to the Whispering Gallery modes of a droplet resonator embedded in liquid medium. The droplet is trapped using novel techniques and fiber-taper is used for optical coupling.
  • Keywords
    optical couplers; optical resonators; whispering gallery modes; droplet resonator; fiber-taper coupling; liquid medium; optical coupling; whispering-gallery modes; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical fiber testing; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Silicon compounds; Whispering gallery modes; (230.5750) resonators; (999.9999) microdroplets; (999.9999) whispering-gallery modes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628381
  • Filename
    4628381