Optical coupling of whispering-gallery modes of two identical microdisks and its effect on photonic molecule lasing

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-84

  Smotrova, Elena I ^a,b   Nosich, Alexander I ^a,b,d   Benson, Trevor M ^a,c,e,f   Sewell, Phillip ^a,c,d  

^a IEEE   (Ukraine)

^b A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ^*

^e Institution of Electrical Engineers   (United Kingdom)

^f Institute of Physics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Laser; Microdisk; Photonic molecule; Whispering gallery (wg) modes

Indexed keywords

MICRODISKS; PHOTONIC MOLECULE; WHISPERING-GALLERY (WG) MODES;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RADIATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 32944457637     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2005.862940     Document Type: Article

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