High-Q whispering gallery modes in a polymer microresonator with broad strain tuning

• DOI: 10.1007/s11433-015-5725-0
• Publication Date: 2015-09-30T10:48:25Z
• Authors: ZhongHao Zhou; FangJie Shu; Zhen Shen; ChunHua Dong; GuangCan Guo
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

We have reported the high- Q whispering gallery modes (WGMs) in a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) optical microresonators with broad tuning range. The PDMS microresonators are fabricated at the center of two collimating fiber tips, which can be controlled by the piezoelectric stage. Through stretching the fiber stem, the tuning range of WGMs are demonstrated more than 50 nm. Further investigations demonstrated that the WGM shift has a high force sensitivity (~ 19.7 pm/μN) of the gravitation when the microcavity is stretched by a weight. The theoretical analysis reveals that the high force sensitivity of polymer microresonator can be used for the weak force or height measurement.