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Optics Express

  • Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
  • Vol. 17, Iss. 26 — Dec. 21, 2009
  • pp: 23843–23850

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Spectrum control by anisotropy in a cylindrical microcavity

Xue-Liang Kang, Yong-Ping Li, Shan-Liang Qiu, and Jia-Xing Cai  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 26, pp. 23843-23850 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.023843


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Abstract

Spectrum control by anisotropy in a cylindrical microcavity made of electric anisotropic medium was studied. A finite-difference time domain method for electric anisotropic medium and Volume-average Effective Permittivity approximation are applied to calculate the resonant frequencies and quality factors of Whispering-gallery modes. The resonant frequency for different whispering-gallery modes has a similar shift in direct proportion to the relative difference of two principal refractive indices. The quality factors decay exponentially due to directional emission when the difference of two principal refractive indices increases. This novel tuning characteristic of anisotropic cylindrical microcavity will play an important role in many areas, such as light source with tunable wavelength, tunable filter and sensor.

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OCIS Codes
(230.2090) Optical devices : Electro-optical devices
(230.3990) Optical devices : Micro-optical devices
(140.3945) Lasers and laser optics : Microcavities
(140.3948) Lasers and laser optics : Microcavity devices

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Optical Devices

History
Original Manuscript: September 23, 2009
Revised Manuscript: October 28, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: December 10, 2009
Published: December 14, 2009

Citation
Xue-Liang Kang, Yong-Ping Li, Shan-Liang Qiu, and Jia-Xing Cai, "Spectrum control by anisotropy in a cylindrical microcavity," Opt. Express 17, 23843-23850 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-26-23843


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