Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 39, Number 4, August II 1997
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Page(s) | 371 - 376 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1997-00364-5 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Dynamical tunneling in optical cavities
Yale University, Department of Applied Physics
15 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06520, USA
Received:
4
February
1997
Accepted:
15
July
1997
The lifetime of whispering gallery modes in a dielectric cavity with a metallic inclusion is shown to fluctuate by orders of magnitude when size and location of the inclusion are varied. We ascribe these fluctuations to tunneling transitions between resonances quantized in different regions of phase space. This interpretation is confirmed by a comparison of the classical phase space structure with the Husimi distribution of the resonant modes. A model Hamiltonian is introduced that describes the phenomenon and shows that it can be expected in a more general class of systems.
PACS: 05.45.+b – Theory and models of chaotic systems / 03.80.+r – General theory of scattering / 42.55.Sa – Microcavity and microdisk lasers
© EDP Sciences, 1997
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