Soap Films as 1D waveguides

• Authors: Olivier Emile , Janine Emile
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Laser light is injected in a free standing horizontal draining soap film through the glass frame sustaining the film. Two propagation regimes are clearly identified depending on the film thickness. At the beginning of the drainage, the soap film behaves as a multimode-one dimensional optofiuidic waveguide. In particular, we observe that the injected light creates a bottleneck in the film and part of the injected light is refracted leading to whiskers. At the end of the drainage where the film thickness is below 1μm, there is a strong selection among the various possible optical modes in the film, and part of the light is defiected. This leads to a self selection of the mode propagation inside the film.

Keywords

EN

optofiuidic waveguide; laser injection; soap film thinning; thin film deformation

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Optofluidics, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2014

accepted

18 - 8 - 2014

online

19 - 11 - 2014

received

6 - 5 - 2014

Contributors

author

Olivier Emile

• URU 435 LPL, Université Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes cedex, France

author

Janine Emile

• UMR CNRS 6251 IPR, Université Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes cedex, France

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/optof-2014-0002