Optical seminar | 05 March 2021

Toropov
 
University of Exeter
Whispering-gallery mode microresonators: delay lines and sensors fabrication’
Abstract

Bottle and spherical micro-resonators will be presented. For bottle microresonators, we will present the Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (SNAP) platform [1,2], an approach for description and several examples of SNAP delay lines. For spherical microresonators, we will present optoplasmonic sensors allowing to detect single ions and even movements of molecular sides [3].

1. M. Sumetsky and J. M. Fini, Surface nanoscale axial photonics, Opt. Express 19, 26470-26485 (2011).

2. N. A. Toropov and M. Sumetsky, Permanent matching of coupled optical bottle resonators with better than 0.16  Hz precision, Opt. Lett. 41, 2278-2281 (2016).

3. Vincent, S., Subramanian, S. & Vollmer, F. Optoplasmonic characterisation of reversible disulfide interactions at single thiol sites in the attomolar regime. Nat Commun 11, 2043 (2020).