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Implementation of a Reference Interferometer for Nanodetection

A thermally and mechanically stabilized fiber interferometer suited for examining ultra-high quality factor microcavities is fashioned. After assessing ...

University of Victoria

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We present a full-vectorial three-dimensional whispering-gallery-mode microcavity analysis technique. With this technique, optical properties such as resonance wavelength, quality factor, and electromagnetic field distribution of a microcavity in the presence of individual nanoparticle adsorption can be simulated with high accuracy, even in the presence of field distortion from plasmon effects at a wavelength close to plasmon resonance. This formulation is applicable to a wide variety of whispering-gallery related problems, such as waveguide to cavity coupling and full wave propagation analysis of a general whispering-gallery-mode microcavity where axisymmetry along the azimuthal direction is not required.

Full-vectorial whispering-gallery-mode cavity analysis.

We simulate light propagation in perturbed whispering-gallery mode microcavities using a two-dimensional finite-difference beam propagation method in a cylindrical coordinate system. Optical properties of whispering-gallery microcavities perturbed by polystyrene nanobeads are investigated through this formulation. The light perturbation as well as quality factor degradation arising from cavity ellipticity are also studied.

Serge Vincent

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Victoria

Implementation of a Reference Interferometer for Nanodetection

Serge Vincent

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University of Victoria

Implementation of a Reference Interferometer for Nanodetection

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering