49) with a radius of the resonator of 500 ��m. As shown in Figure 4, resonators with smaller shear modulus G experience larger MDR shift due to the larger mechanical deformation induced by the applied external angular velocity. Figure Ixazomib order 4 also shows that the MDR shifts that are induced in a spinning resonator are very small for silica and PMMA resonators in the range of the calculated angular velocity.Figure 4.MDR shift using Equation (7) for silica, PMMA and PDMS 10:1 and 60:1 resonators.2.?Experimental SectionWe carried out a series of experiments to investigate the effect of angular velocity on the MDR shifts of 60:1 and 10:1 PDMS. The opto-electronic setup that we used to excite and monitor the MDR is the same as the one described in [7]. Briefly, the output of a distributed feedback (DFB) laser (nominal central wavelength 1.

312 ��m) was coupled at one end of a single mode optical fiber, while the other end was terminated to a photodiode to monitor the transmission spectrum as shown in Figure 2. The DFB laser was current-tuned to excite the optical resonances. The light was coupled evanescently into the microsphere using a tapered section of a single mode optical fiber. The optical Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries fiber was brought in contact with the resonator using a micro translation stage. Once resonances were observed trough the transmission spectrum, the fiber holder was glued to the disk (see Figure 5). Note that the coupling was obtained while the disk was not rotating, and also for this experimental configuration the DFB laser and the photodiode Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries were not rotating with the disk.

This configuration may lead to a fragile coupling between the sphere and the fiber; however the system can be made more robust using a planar wave guide coupler as reported in [21]. Also the tapered section of the optical fiber was firmly attached to the resonator Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries due to the softness of the PDMS. This allowed a stable coupling between the sphere and the optical fiber during the experiments. The microsphere was Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries fabricated as follows. The PDMS b
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