Optical microsphere resonators: Optimal coupling to high-Q whispering-gallery modes

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 147-154

  Gorodetsky, M L ^a   Ilchenko, V S ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007233641     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.16.000147     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. V. B. Braginsky, M. L. Gorodetsky, and V. S. Ilchenko, "Quality-factor and nonlinear properties of optical whispering-gallery modes," Phys. Lett. A 137, 393-396 (1989).
2. H. Mabuchi and H. J. Kimble, "Atom galleries for whispering atoms: binding atoms in stable orbits around a dielectric cavity," Opt. Lett. 19, 749-751 (1994).
3. V. Sandoghdar, F. Treussart, J. Hare, V. Lefèvre-Seguin, J.-M. Raimond, and S. Haroche, "A very low threshold whispering gallery mode microsphere laser," Phys. Rev. B 54, R1777-R1780 (1996).
4. S. Schiller and R. L. Byer, "High-resolution spectroscopy of whispering gallery modes in large dielectric spheres," Opt. Lett. 16, 1138-1140 (1991).
5. A. Serpengüzel, S. Arnold, and G. Griffel, "Excitation of resonances of microspheres on an optical fiber," Opt. Lett. 20, 654-656 (1994).
6. V. V. Vasiliev, V. L. Velichansky, M. L. Gorodetsky, V. S. Ilchenko, L. Hollberg, and A. V. Yarovitsky, "High-coherence diode laser with optical feedback via a microcavity with 'whispering gallery' modes," Quantum Electron. 26, 657-658 (1996).
7. L. Collot, V. Lefèvre-Seguin, M. Brune, J.-M. Raimond, and S. Haroche, "Very high-Q whispering gallery modes resonances observed on fused silica microspheres," Europhys. Lett. 23, 327-333 (1993).
8. P. W. Barber and R. K. Chang, Optical Effects Associated with Small Particles (World Scientific, Singapore, 1988).
9. S. P. Vyatchanin, M. L. Gorodetsky, and V. S. Ilchenko, "Tunable narrowband optical filters with whispering gallery modes," Zh. Prikl. Spektrosk. 56, 274-280, 1992.
10. M. L. Gorodetsky and V. S. Ilchenko, "High-Q optical whispering gallery microresonators: precession approach for spherical mode analysis and emission patterns," Opt. Commun. 113, 133-143 (1994).
11. G. Griffel, S. Arnold, D. Taskent, A. Serpengüzel, J. Connoly, and N. Morris, "Morphology-dependent resonances of a microsphere-optical fiber system," Opt. Lett. 21, 695-697 (1995).
12. N. Dubreuil, J. C. Knight, D. Leventhal, V. Sandoghdar, J. Hare, V. Lefèvre-Seguin, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche, "Eroded monomode optical fiber for whispering-gallery mode excitation in fused-silica microspheres," Opt. Lett. 20, 1515-1517 (1995).
13. J. C. Knight, G. Cheung, F. Jacques, and T. A. Birks, "Phase-matched excitation of whispering gallery mode resonances using a fiber taper," Opt. Lett. 22, 1129-1131 (1997).