All-optical nanopositioning of high-Q silica microspheres.

A tunable, all-optical, coupling method is realised for a high-Q silica microsphere and an optical waveguide. By means of a novel optical nanopositioning method, induced thermal expansion of an asymmetric microsphere stem for laser powers up to 211 mW is observed and used to fine tune the microsphere-waveguide coupling. Microcavity displacements ranging from (0.61 ± 0.13) - (3.49 ± 0.13) μm and nanometer scale sensitivities varying from (2.81 ± 0.08) - (17.08 ± 0.76) nm/mW, with an apparent linear dependency of coupling distance on stem laser heating, are obtained. Using this method, the coupling is altered such that the different coupling regimes are achieved.

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