Title :
Modeling Sagnac effect in micro resonators using FDTD method
Author :
Novitski, Roman ; Scheuer, Jacob ; Steinberg, Ben Z.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng., Tel-Aviv Univ., Tel-Aviv, Israel
Abstract :
We present a novel FDTD method for studying optics in rotating microrings. We find that in contrast to commonly thought, the Sagnac frequency splitting depends on the group index and not on the effective index.
Keywords :
Sagnac interferometers; finite difference time-domain analysis; micro-optics; optical resonators; optical rotation; FDTD method; Sagnac effect; Sagnac frequency splitting; effective index; finite difference time-domain analysis; group index; microresonators; rotating microrings; Finite difference methods; Indexes; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Resonant frequency; Sagnac interferometers; Time domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358528
