Optical microbubble resonator

M. Sumetsky, Y. Dulashko, R.S. Windeler

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Abstract

We develop a method for fabricating very small silica microbubbles having a micrometer-order wall thickness and demonstrate the first optical microbubble resonator. Our method is based on blowing a microbubble using stable radiative CO2 laser heating rather than unstable convective heating in a flame or furnace. Microbubbles are created along a microcapillary and are naturally opened to the input and output microfluidic or gas channels. The demonstrated microbubble resonator has 370 µm diameter, 2 µm wall thickness, and a Q factor exceeding 10.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)898-900
Number of pages3
JournalOptics Letters
Volume35
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2010

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