Directional Tunneling Escape from Nearly Spherical Optical Resonators
Optics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We report the surprising observation of directional tunneling escape from nearly spherical fused-silica optical resonators, in which most of the phase space is filled with nonchaotic regular trajectories. Experimental and theoretical studies of the dependence of the far-field emission pattern on both the degree of deformation and the excitation condition show that nonperturbative phase-space structures in the internal ray dynamics profoundly affect tunneling leakage of the whispering-gallery modes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0307120,
title = {Directional Tunneling Escape from Nearly Spherical Optical Resonators},
author = {Scott Lacey and Hailin Wang and David H. Foster and Jens U. Noeckel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0307120},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures