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Light control in a hemicylindrical whispering gallery microcavity-parallel plate waveguide system

Optics 2022-06-02 v1

Abstract

We have shown that a structure composed of a semiconductor hemicylinder and a dielectric waveguide separated by a thin metal layer permits efficient and easy light control. In such a system, it is possible to ensure matching between TE and TM modes of a low refractive index waveguide with the corresponding whispering gallery modes of the hemicylinder of a higher refractive index, a circumstance that allows one to reduce the resonator sizes to the order of the exciting wavelength in the vacuum still having rather high Q-factor around 2*10^4. Due to pronounced electro-optical properties of the resonator medium, one is able to effectively control the output light intensity by varying the refractive index of the hemicylinder in the order of 10^(-4).

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@article{arxiv.2006.00437,
  title  = {Light control in a hemicylindrical whispering gallery microcavity-parallel plate waveguide system},
  author = {Henrik Parsamyan and Hovhannes Haroyan and Khachatur Nerkararyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.00437},
  year   = {2022}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures, 23 references

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