Fiber taper coupling to chalcogenide microsphere modes

We report the manufacturing and optical characterization of microsphere in chalcogenide. We show that high-Q modes of a 9.2 mumm diameter chalcogenide glass can be efficiently excited using a silica tapered fiber.

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