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Unidirectional light emission from high-Q modes in optical microcavities

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-11 v2 Chaotic Dynamics Optics

Abstract

We introduce a new scheme to design optical microcavities supporting high-Q modes with unidirectional light emission. This is achieved by coupling a low-Q mode with unidirectional emission to a high-Q mode. The coupling is due to enhanced dynamical tunneling near an avoided resonance crossing. Numerical results for a microdisk with a suitably positioned air hole demonstrate the feasibility and the potential of this concept.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0512435,
  title  = {Unidirectional light emission from high-Q modes in optical microcavities},
  author = {Jan Wiersig and Martina Hentschel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0512435},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 6 figures (in reduced resolution)

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