Spectral shift and Q change of circular and square-shaped optical microcavity modes due to periodic sidewall surface roughness

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1792-1796

  Boriskina, Svetlana V ^a   Benson, Trevor M ^a   Sewell, Phillip ^a   Nosich, Alexander I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADIATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; CIRCULAR MICRODISK; FREQUENCY DETUNING; OPTICAL MICROCAVITY; RADIATION LOSS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

LASER MODES;

EID: 10044235289     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001792     Document Type: Article

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