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Lifetime statistics in chaotic dielectric microresonators

Optics 2009-05-13 v1

Abstract

We discuss the statistical properties of lifetimes of electromagnetic eigenmodes in dielectric microresonators with fully chaotic ray dynamics. Using the example of a resonator of stadium geometry, we find that a recently proposed random-matrix model very well describes the lifetime statistics of long-lived resonances, provided that two effective parameters are appropriately renormalized. This renormalization is linked to the formation of anomalously short-lived resonances, a mechanism also known from the fractal Weyl law and the resonance trapping phenomenon.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2823,
  title  = {Lifetime statistics in chaotic dielectric microresonators},
  author = {Henning Schomerus and Jan Wiersig and Jörg Main},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2823},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures

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