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Q-factor and emission pattern control of the WG modes in notched microdisk resonators

Optics 2016-11-17 v1

Abstract

Two-dimensional (2-D) boundary integral equation analysis of a notched circular microdisk resonator is presented. Results obtained provide accurate description of optical modes, free from the staircasing and discretization errors of other numerical techniques. Splitting of the double degenerate Whispering-Gallery (WG) modes and directional light output is demonstrated. The effect of the notch depth and width on the resonance wavelengths, Q-factors, and emission patterns is studied. Further improvement of the directionality is demonstrated in an elliptical notched microdisk. Applications of the notched resonators to the design of microdisk lasers, oscillators, and biosensors are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0509202,
  title  = {Q-factor and emission pattern control of the WG modes in notched microdisk resonators},
  author = {Svetlana V. Boriskina and Trevor M. Benson and Phillip Sewell and Alexander I. Nosich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0509202},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages with 11 figures; to appear in IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum. Electron., Jan/Feb 2006

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