Optical excitation and probing of whispering gallery modes in bottle microresonators: potential for all-fiber add-drop filters.
We have investigated the optical excitation and probing of bottle microresonators experimentally, using fiber tapers. The channel-dropping characteristics of such devices are shown to depend on the excitation configuration. In addition, the axial leakage behavior of these microresonators is characterized.
Murugan
Ganapathy Senthil
GS
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. smg@orc.soton.ac.uk
Wilkinson
James S
JS
Zervas
Michalis N
MN