Abstract
We numerically calculate mechanical whispering-gallery modes in a micron-scale silica sphere revealing Rayleigh, transverse, and longitudinal deformations. Experimentally observed modes vibrating at frequencies from 50MHz to 12 GHz will be shown next to their calculated mode.
© 2011 Optical Society of America
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