Localization of light in an optical microcapillary introduced by a droplet

Tabassom Hamidfar; Kirill V. Tokmakov; Brian J. Mangan; Robert S. Windeler; Artemiy V. Dmitriev; Dashiell L.P. Vitullo; Pablo Bianucci; Misha Sumetsky

doi:10.1364/OPTICA.5.000382

Localization of light in an optical microcapillary introduced by a droplet

Tabassom Hamidfar, Kirill V. Tokmakov, Brian J. Mangan, Robert S. Windeler, Artemiy V. Dmitriev, Dashiell L.P. Vitullo, Pablo Bianucci, Misha Sumetsky

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Abstract

Sensing with optical whispering gallery modes (WGMs) is a rapidly developing detection method in modern microfluidics research. This method explores the perturbations of spectra of WGMs propagating along the wall of an optical microcapillary to characterize the liquid medium inside it. Here we show that WGMs in a silica microcapillary can be fully localized (rather than perturbed) by evanescent coupling to a water droplet and, thus, form a high-quality-factor microresonator. The spectra of this resonator, measured with a microfiber translated along the capillary, present a hierarchy of resonances that allow us to determine the size of the droplet and variation of its length due to the evaporation. The resolution of our measurements of this variation equal to 4.5 nm is only limited by the resolution of the optical spectrum analyzer used. The discovered phenomenon of complete localization of light in liquid-filled optical microcapillaries suggests a new type of microfluidic photonic device as well as an ultraprecise method for microfluidic characterization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	382-388
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optica
Volume	5
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.000382
Publication status	Published - 29 Mar 2018

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Funding: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (H2020) (H2020‐EU.1.3.3, 691011), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (EP/P006183/1).

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