Recommended Citation He, Lina, "Whispering Gallery Mode Microresonators for Lasing and Single Nanoparticle Detection " (2012). All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). Paper 697.

Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators have attracted great interests due to the significantly enhanced light-matter interactions originating from their high quality factors and small mode volumes. They are suitable for a wide range of applications including sensing, lasing, nonlinear optics, and so forth. However, temperature fluctuations as one of the most common environmental noises disturb the cavity resonances and thus degrade the device stability and sensitivity. We introduce a wetting technique to coat the silica resonator with a thin layer of polymer which has the negative thermo-optic coefficient to compensate for the thermal effect in silica, and demonstrate complete thermal compensation