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Stimulated Stokes and Antistokes Raman Scattering in Microspherical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators
Published on: April 4, 2016
Three-dimensional analysis of cylindrical microresonators based on the aperiodic Fourier modal method
Andrea Armaroli1, Alain Morand, Pierre Benech
1ENDIF, Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, via Saragat 1, 44100 Ferrara, Italy. andrea.armaroli@unife.it
Abstract:
We develop a 3D vectorial description of microresonators of the microdisk and microring types based on the aperiodic Fourier modal method. Such a rigorous coupled-wave analysis allows us to evaluate accurately the resonant wavelengths, the quality factor, and the full profile of whispering-gallery modes. The results are compared with 2D (effective index) as well as 3D finite-difference time domain calculations.
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