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Stimulated Stokes and Antistokes Raman Scattering in Microspherical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators
Published on: April 4, 2016
Reciprocal transmissions and asymmetric modal distributions in waveguide-coupled spiral-shaped microdisk resonators:
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bremen, Postfach 330 440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany. jwiersig@itp.uni-bremen.de
Abstract:
In a recent article [Opt. Express 15, 14650 (2007)] Lee et al. claimed that optical modes in spiral-shaped microcavities come in pairs of clockwise and counterclockwise traveling-wave modes having the same frequencies and Q-factors but different modal distributions. In this comment, we show that the opposite is true: the modes are in general nondegenerate in terms of frequencies and Q-factors and the modal distributions are similar.
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