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Whispering gallery modes (WGMs), circulating modes near the surface of a spheroidal material, have been known to exhibit high quality factors for both acoustic and electromagnetic waves. Here, we report an electro-optomechanical system,…

Mechanisms of whispering-gallery (WG) modes coupling in microdisk photonic molecules (PMs) with slight and significant size mismatch are numerically investigated. The results reveal two different scenarios of modes interaction depending on…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Svetlana V. Boriskina

Microcavity and whispering gallery mode (WGM) biosensors derive their sensitivity from monitoring frequency shifts induced by protein binding at sites of highly confined field intensities, where field strengths can be further amplified by…

We experimentally demonstrate the use of a novel liquid state, whispering-gallery-mode optical resonator as a highly sensitive humidity sensor. The optical resonator used consists of a droplet made of glycerol, a transparent liquid that…

We present an experimental observation on particles adsorbed to a whispering gallery mode (WGM) optical resonator produced from a glass sphere of about 100 micro meter in radius. For spherical adsorbates of radius about 100 nm, we find a…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Vollmer , H. C. Ren , S. Arnold , A. Libchaber

We present a theoretical investigation of a whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonator coupled to a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) and show a bimodal coincidence transmission spectrum when the input state is an indistinguishable photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Callum Jones , Antonio Vidiella-Barranco , Jolly Xavier , Frank Vollmer

We theoretically study the properties of highly prolate shaped dielectric microresonators. Such resonators sustain whispering gallery modes that exhibit two spatially well separated regions with enhanced field strength. The field per photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-26 Y. Louyer , D. Meschede , A. Rauschenbeutel

In this study, an integrated low-cost and complexity mm-wave structure of Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) is proposed for sensing the glucose levels in mimicking aquatic solutions of concentrations similar to type 2 diabetics. The bio-sensor…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Ala Eldin Omer , George Shaker , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Studies of biochemical liquids require precise determination of their complex permittivity. We developed a microwave characterization technique on the basis of a high-quality whispering-gallery mode (WGM) sapphire resonator with a…

The inherent coupling of optical and mechanical modes in high finesse optical microresonators provide a natural, highly sensitive transduction mechanism for micromechanical vibrations. Using homodyne and polarization spectroscopy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Schliesser , G. Anetsberger , R. Rivière , O. Arcizet , T. J. Kippenberg

Whispering gallery mode resonators (WGMRs) take advantage of strong light confinement and long photon lifetime for applications in sensing, optomechanics, microlasers and quantum optics. However, their rotational symmetry and low radiation…

Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities can efficiently store and manipulate light with strong light confinement and long photon lifetime, while coupling light into and from WGMs is intrinsically hindered by their unique feature of…

Whispering gallery mode microlasers are known for their high Q-factors, characteristic emission spectra and sensitivity to local refractive index changes. This sensitivity combined with the ability of various cell types to internalise these…

A widely tunable free spectral range (FSR) is essential for many optical microresonator applications, but achieving it remains a significant challenge. Recently, it has been experimentally demonstrated that side-coupling between two optical…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-09 M. Sumetsky

We report controllable manipulation of slow and fast light in a whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microtoroid resonator fabricated from Erbium (Er3+) doped silica. We observe continuous transition of the coupling between the fiber-taper…

In whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators light is guided by continuous total internal reflection along a curved surface. Fabricating such resonators from an optically nonlinear material one takes advantage of their exceptionally high…

Micro and nanoscale particles are crucial in various fields, from biomedical imaging to environmental processes. While conventional spectroscopy and microscopy methods for characterizing these particles often involve bulky equipment and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jie Liao , Maxwell Adolphson , Hangyue Li , Dipayon Kumar Sikder , Chenyang Lu , Lan Yang

High-Q optical microresonators combine low losses and high optical energy concentration in a small effective mode volume, making them an attractive platform for optical sensors. While light is confined in the microresonator by total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Dariya Salykina , Daniil Shakhbaziants , Igor Bilenko , Farid Khalili

We demonstrate simultaneous center-of-mass cooling of two coupled oscillators, consisting of a microsphere-cantilever and a tapered optical fiber. Excitation of a whispering gallery mode (WGM) of the microsphere, via the evanescent field of…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-17 Ying Lia Li , James Millen , P. F. Barker

We report condensation of hexagonal whispering gallery modes (WGM) at room temperature in ZnO microwires that embody nearly perfect polygonal whispering gallery microresonators. The condensate regime is achieved in the UV spectral range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 Christof P. Dietrich , Rüdiger Schmidt-Grund , Tom Michalsky , Martin Lange , Marius Grundmann