Abstract

A new method based on the boundary element method (BEM) is developed to calculate high quality factors of whispering-gallery modes by studying the Poynting vector. The method has high calculation accuracy, which exceeds traditional methods with the same PC computation resource. To demonstrate the feasibility of the present method, circular and quadrupole microcavities are investigated with this method and compared with the results by analytical and finite element method (FEM) results, respectively.

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History
Original Manuscript: July 10, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: September 11, 2009
Published: October 9, 2009

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Author Affiliations

Yun-Feng Xiao

Peking University

Chang-Ling Zou, Yong Yang, Chun-Hua Dong, Zheng-Fu Han, Guang-Can Guo

University of Science & Technology of China

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