Coupling system to a microsphere cavity
US6389197B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 10, 2000 |
| Grant date | May 14, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 10, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01S5/1075
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A system of coupling optical energy in a waveguide mode, into a resonator that operates in a whispering gallery mode. A first part of the operation uses a fiber in its waveguide mode to couple information into a resonator e.g. a microsphere. The fiber is cleaved at an angle &PHgr; which causes total internal reflection within the fiber. The energy in the fiber then forms an evanescent field and a microsphere is placed in the area of the evanescent field. If the microsphere resonance is resonant with energy in the fiber, then the information in the fiber is effectively transferred to the microsphere.
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