We review the method of producing adiabatic optical micro-and nanofibers using a hydrogen/oxygen flame brushing technique. The flame is scanned along the fiber, which is being simultaneously stretched by two translation stages. The tapered fiber fabrication is reproducible and yields highly adiabatic tapers with either exponential or linear profiles. Details regarding the setup of the flame brushing rig and the various parameters used are presented. Information available from the literature is compiled and further details that are necessary to have a functioning pulling rig are included. This should enable the reader to fabricate various taper profiles, while achieving adiabatic transmission of ~ 99% for fundamental mode propagation. Using this rig, transmissions ranging from 85-95% for higher order modes in an optical nanofiber have been obtained.
The tunability of an optical cavity is an essential requirement for many
areas of research. Here, we use the Pound-Drever-Hall technique to lock a laser
to a whispering gallery mode (WGM) of a microbubble resonator, to show that
linear tuning of the WGM, and the corresponding locked laser, display almost
zero hysteresis. By applying aerostatic pressure to the interior surface of the
microbubble resonator, optical mode shift rates of around $58$ GHz/MPa are
achieved. The microbubble can measure pressure with a detection limit of
$2\times 10^{-4}$ MPa, which is an improvement made on pressure sensing using
this device. The long-term frequency stability of this tuning method for
different input pressures is measured. The frequency noise of the WGM measured
over $10$ minutes for an input pressure of $0.5$ MPa, has a maximum standard
deviation of $36$ MHz.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Dissipative optomechanics has some advantages in cooling compared to the conventional dispersion dominated systems. Here, we study the optical response of a cantilever-like, silica, microsphere pendulum, evanescently coupled to a fiber taper. In a whispering gallery mode resonator the cavity mode and motion of the pendulum result in both dispersive and dissipative optomechanical interactions. This unique mechanism leads to an experimentally observable, asymmetric response function of the transduction spectrum which can be explained using coupled-mode theory. The optomechanical transduction, and its relationship to the external coupling gap, are investigated and we show that the experimental behavior is in good agreement with the theoretical predictions. A deep understanding of this mechanism is necessary to explore trapping and cooling in dissipative optomechanical systems.
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