• DocumentCode
    2672747
  • Title

    Highly directional emission from nearly spherical resonators

  • Author

    Lacey, S. ; Foster, D. ; Hailin Wang ; Noeckel, J.U.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Colgate Coll., Eugene, OR, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2003
  • Abstract
    We report highly directional light emission from nearly spherical fused-silica resonators. It is found that non-perturbative phase space structure in the internal ray dynamics profoundly affects evanescent leakage of the whispering-gallery modes.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; light reflection; SiO/sub 2/; evanescent leakage; fused-silica resonators; highly directional light emission; internal ray dynamics; nearly spherical resonators; nonperturbative phase space structure; whispering-gallery modes; Chaos; Laser modes; Optical filters; Optical reflection; Optical resonators; Optical surface waves; Optimized production technology; Q factor; Resonance; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2003. QELS. Postconference Digest
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-749-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2003.238337
  • Filename
    1276454