Tunable resonant optical microcavities by self-assembled templating
Prakash, G. Vijaya, Besombes, L., Kelf, T., Baumberg, Jeremy J., Bartlett, P.N. and Abdelsalam, M.E. (2004) Tunable resonant optical microcavities by self-assembled templating. Optics Letters, 29, (13), 1500-1502. (doi:10.1364/OL.29.001500)
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Description/Abstract
Micrometer-scale optical cavities are produced by a combination of template sphere self-assembly and electrochemical growth. Transmission measurements of the tunable microcavities show sharp resonant modes with Q factors of >300 and 25-fold local enhancement of light intensity. The presence of transverse optical modes confirms the lateral confinement of photons. Calculations show that submicrometer mode volumes are feasible. The small mode volumes of these microcavities promise to lead to a wide range of applications in microlasers, atom optics, quantum information, biophotonics, and single-molecule detection.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSN: | 0146-9592 (print) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | spherical microcavity, lasers and laser optics: laser resonators, lasers and laser optics: optical resonators, physical optics: metals, optics of, ultrafast optics: ultrafast lasers |
| Related URLs: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/en...med_docsum http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.29.001500 |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Physics and Astronomy University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Chemistry |
| ePrint ID: | 20310 |
| Deposited On: | 17 Feb 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 00:31 |
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