A fiber-type optomechanical array using high-Q microbottle resonators

Abstract

We demonstrate a fiber-type optomechanical array consisting of elastically interconnected silica microbottle resonators with high-Q optical and mechanical modes. In total, fifty optomechanical resonators fabricated by fine glass processing are uniformly arrayed on a silica fiber. Evanescent coupling of a tapered optical fiber to an arbitrary resonator allows for highly sensitive readout and efficient actuation of mechanical motion at an arbitrary position in the array. Phonon propagation through the fifty microbottles is achieved by both linearly and parametrically driving a mechanical mode at one end and by detecting it at the other end. This optomechanical array is scalable, tunable, and lithography-free and can be extended to fiber-based sensory applications with structural flexibility and operability in various environments.