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Imperial College London

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Laser light (red) propagates in a tapered optical fibre and is coupled into a whispering-gallery-mode microresonator where it circulates up to a million times. As the light circulates it interacts with high-frequency acoustic waves

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Image credit: project co-author Jack Clarke (www.qmeas.net)

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