Ray Chaos andQSpoiling in Lasing Droplets
- 2 October 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 75 (14) , 2682-2685
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.2682
Abstract
It is proposed that the spoiling of high-Q whispering gallery modes in deformed dielectric spheres can be understood as a transition to chaotic ray dynamics which can no longer be confined by total internal reflection. This is a Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser/Lazutkin transition for light. The theory is applied to explain the lasing properties of droplets.Keywords
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