Theoretical prediction of a dramatic Q-factor enhancement and degeneracy removal of whispering gallery modes in symmetrical photonic molecules
Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Issue 3, pp. 338-340 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.31.000338
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Abstract
Coupled-microdisk photonic molecules with high-symmetry geometries that support nondegenerate whispering gallery modes with high quality factors are numerically designed, based on a two-dimensional model. Dramatic enhancement of calculated Q factors of nondegenerate modes as compared with single-microdisk whispering gallery modes of the same radial order is achieved by tuning the intercavity coupling distances. Potential applications of this work to the design of single-mode coupled-microdisk structures with large spontaneous emission factors and low threshold lasing operation and to random laser simulations are discussed.
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OCIS Codes
(130.3120) Integrated optics : Integrated optics devices
(140.4780) Lasers and laser optics : Optical resonators
(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
(230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators
ToC Category:
Integrated Optics
History
Original Manuscript: August 3, 2005
Revised Manuscript: October 6, 2005
Manuscript Accepted: November 6, 2005
Citation
Svetlana V. Boriskina, "Theoretical prediction of a dramatic Q-factor enhancement and degeneracy removal of whispering gallery modes in symmetrical photonic molecules," Opt. Lett. 31, 338-340 (2006)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-31-3-338
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