Chaos-assisted emission from asymmetric resonant cavity microlasers
Abstract
We study emission from quasi-one-dimensional modes of an asymmetric resonant cavity that are associated with a stable periodic ray orbit confined inside the cavity by total internal reflection. It is numerically demonstrated that such modes exhibit directional emission, which is explained by chaos-assisted emission induced by dynamical tunneling. Fabricating semiconductor microlasers with the asymmetric resonant cavity, we experimentally demonstrate the selective excitation of the quasi-one-dimensional modes by employing the device structure to preferentially inject currents to these modes and observe directional emission in good accordance with the theoretical prediction based on chaos-assisted emission.
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@article{arxiv.1104.5611,
title = {Chaos-assisted emission from asymmetric resonant cavity microlasers},
author = {Susumu Shinohara and Takahisa Harayama and Takehiro Fukushima and Martina Hentschel and Satoshi Sunada and Evgenii E. Narimanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.5611},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
9 pages, 10 figures, some figures are in reduced quality