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Published October 30, 2006 | public
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Fiber-taper coupling to Whispering-Gallery modes of fluidic resonators embedded in a liquid medium

Abstract

We demonstrate efficient coupling to the optical Whispering-Gallery (WG) modes of a fluidic resonator consisting of a droplet embedded in a liquid medium. Unlike previous experiments the droplet is not levitated in an optical or electrostatic trap and free space coupling is replaced by phase-matched, waveguide coupling using a fiber-taper. We have observed critical coupling to fundamental WG modes of a 600 μm diameter water droplet at 980 nm. The experimental challenges towards making, stabilizing and coupling to the droplet resonators are addressed in this paper.

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© 2006 Optical Society of America Received 28 August 2006; revised 13 October 2006; accepted 15 October 2006; published October 30, 2006.

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