Directional Tunneling Escape from Nearly Spherical Optical Resonators

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24 July 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.physics/0307120

Abstract

We report the surprising observation of directional tunneling escape from nearly spherical fused-silica optical resonators, in which most of the phase space is filled with nonchaotic regular trajectories. Experimental and theoretical studies of the dependence of the far-field emission pattern on both the degree of deformation and the excitation condition show that nonperturbative phase-space structures in the internal ray dynamics profoundly affect tunneling leakage of the whispering-gallery modes.

Keywords

DIRECTIONAL TUNNELING ESCAPE
SURPRISING OBSERVATION
OPTICAL RESONATORS
SPHERICAL OPTICAL
SILICA

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Version 1, 2003-07-24, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 91 (3), 033902.

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