Lasing frequencies and thresholds of the dipole supermodes in an active microdisk concentrically coupled with a passive microring

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2884-2892

  Smotrova, Elena I ^a   Benson, Trevor M ^b   Sewell, Phillip ^b   Ctyroky, Jiri ^c   Nosich, Alexander I ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICS;

LASING EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; LASING FREQUENCY; LASING SPECTRUM; NEAR FIELD PATTERNS; OPTICAL THEOREM; POLARIZED MODES; RADIATION CONDITION; THRESHOLD REDUCTION;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 61349084932     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002884     Document Type: Article

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