Light and Capillary Waves Propagation in Water Fibers.

ABSTRACT: The confinement of light and sound, while they are traveling in fibers, enables a variety of light-matter interactions. Therefore, it is natural to ask if fibers can also host capillary waves. Capillary waves are similar to those we see when throwing a stone into a puddle. Such capillary waves are prohibited in microfluidic devices where the liquid is bounded by solid walls. In contrast, we have fabricated fibers, which are made entirely from water and are suspended in air. The water fiber can therefore move, e.g. in a resonant mode that reassembles the motion of a guitar string. In our experiment, light guided through the water fiber allows optical interrogation of is capillary oscillations. Co-confining two important oscillations in nature: capillary and electromagnetic, might allow a ne

SUBMITTER: Douvidzon ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5709472 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature