Title :
Chaos-assisted whispering-gallery-mode excitation using a sub-wavelength optical fiber
Author :
Xue-Feng Jiang ; Qi-Fan Yang ; Yun-Feng Xiao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We report experimentally the chaos-assisted excitation of high-Q whispering-gallery modes in a deformed microcavity by a sub-wavelength fiber taper. This chaos-mediated coupling combines the advantages of fiber taper and free-space coupling.
Keywords :
microcavities; optical chaos; optical fibres; whispering gallery modes; chaos-assisted excitation; chaos-assisted whispering-gallery-mode excitation; deformed microcavity; free-space coupling; sub-wavelength fiber taper; sub-wavelength optical fiber; Cavity resonators; Couplings; Indexes; Microcavities; Optical fibers; Optical frequency conversion;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
