Optical microfiber loop resonator

We demonstrate a microloop resonator created from the subwavelength-diameter microfiber in free space. The resonator was tuned to exhibit Q-factor 15000 and to the critical coupling regime with the magnitude of transmission oscillations 34 dB

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