Intra-cavity stimulated emissions of photons in almost pure spin states without imposed nonreciprocity

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2516-2527

  Chang, Shu Wei ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; PHOTONS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM STATE; CAVITY MODE; FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; INTRACAVITIES; NONRECIPROCAL; NONRECIPROCITY; SPIN ORIENTATIONS; SPIN STATE; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SPIN LABELING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPIN LABELS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84863066240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002516     Document Type: Article

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