Optical filtering with axial whispering gallery modes on the surface of tapered optical fibers

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Optical filtering with axial whispering gallery modes on the surface of tapered optical fibers. / Han, Zhiyong; Fast, Semen S.; Klotz, Emile et al.

In: Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 17, No. 6, 066201, 01.06.2020.

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Han, Zhiyong ; Fast, Semen S. ; Klotz, Emile et al. / Optical filtering with axial whispering gallery modes on the surface of tapered optical fibers. In: Laser Physics Letters. 2020 ; Vol. 17, No. 6.

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abstract = "We study the Q-factors of whispering gallery modes on the surface of standard optical fibers using both spectral and ring-down measurements and show that annealing by the fire torch yields Q-factors higher than 107. In this case, however, variations of the effective radius are introduced, that make the mode spectrum complicated as a number of modes with a nonzero axial component of the wave vector appear. We demonstrate that tapering the fiber sample allows to evade this complexity and to build up an efficient filter operating in transmission.",

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