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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities

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Wave chaos in rotating optical cavities.

Takahisa Harayama¹, Satoshi Sunada, Tomohiro Miyasaka

¹Department of Nonlinear Science, ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0228, Japan.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

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Rotating optical cavities cause frequency splitting in wave chaotic eigenmodes. This splitting is proportional to rotation speed, even without unidirectional waves.

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Area of Science:

Physics
Optics
Wave Phenomena

Background:

Optical cavities support eigenmodes with specific frequencies.
Wave chaos describes complex wave patterns within cavities.
Cavity rotation can influence wave dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the effect of cavity rotation on wave chaotic eigenmodes.
To determine the relationship between rotation and frequency splitting.

Main Methods:

Theoretical analysis of rotating optical cavities.
Examination of eigenmode behavior under rotation.

Main Results:

Degenerate eigenfrequencies of wave chaotic modes split when the cavity rotates.
The frequency splitting is directly proportional to the angular velocity.
Splitting occurs without the presence of unidirectionally rotating waves.

Conclusions:

Cavity rotation induces frequency splitting in wave chaotic eigenmodes.
This phenomenon offers new insights into wave dynamics in rotating systems.
The observed splitting is a robust feature of rotating chaotic optical systems.