Defect-induced whispering-gallery-mode resonances in optical microdisk resonators
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Microwave Photonics Systems Based on Whispering-gallery-mode Resonators
Published on: August 5, 2013
Lev Deych1, Michel Ostrowski, Yasha Yi
1Queens College of the City University of New York , Flushing, New York 11367, USA. lev.deych@qc.cuny.edu
Optics Letters
|August 18, 2011
Abstract:
In this Letter we present results of theoretical and experimental studies of whispering-gallery modes in optical microdisk resonators interacting with subwavelength dielectric particles. We predict theoretically and confirm by direct observations that, contrary to the generally accepted models, both peaks of the particle-induced doublet of resonances are redshifted with respect to the position of the initial resonance.
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