@inproceedings{25b7bfbefe6a407691bded9870696159,
title = "Surface optomechanics: Observation of surface acoustic resonances in whispering gallery resonators",
abstract = "We experimentally demonstrate the excitation of a mechanical Rayleigh surface mode through optical electrostriction in a silica microsphere resonator. These modes have applications in optomechanical photonic oscillators and surface acoustic wave based sensing.",
author = "Gaurav Bahl and John Zehnpfennig and Matthew Tomes and Tal Carmon",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1364/qels.2011.qwe3",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781557529107",
series = "2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics: Laser Science to Photonic Applications, CLEO 2011",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
booktitle = "2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics",
}