Resonant transport of light from planar polymer waveguide into liquid-crystal microcavity.
Opt Express
; 21(18): 20506-16, 2013 Sep 09.
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ABSTRACT
We demonstrate the resonant transfer of light from a planar waveguide to a nematic liquid-crystal microdroplet immersed in water. A wide spectrum of light from a supercontinuum laser source is coupled into a high-refractive-index polymer waveguide using a prism-film coupler. The waveguide is in contact with a water dispersion of droplets from the nematic liquid-crystal 5CB. The evanescent field of the light in the waveguide is resonantly coupled to the whispering-gallery mode resonances, sustained by 5 - 20 µm-sized nematic liquid-crystal droplets, which are in close proximity to the waveguide. The resonant transfer of light is tuned by the temperature-induced shifting of the WGM resonances due to the temperature dependence of the refractive index of the nematic liquid crystal. The measurements are compared to the calculations of the coupled-mode theory.
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OFTALMOLOGIA
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