Controlled coupling of counterpropagating Whispering-Gallery modes by a single rayleigh scatterer: A classical problem in a quantum optical light

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Mazzei, A ^a   Gotzinger S ^b   Menezes, De S ^c   Zumofen, G ^b   Benson, O ^a   Sandoghdar, V ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; WAVELENGTH;

EIGENMODES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERERS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 35548985790     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.173603     Document Type: Article

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