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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 35, Issue 14, Pages 2385-2387Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.002385
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As opposed to the modes in an optical spherical/spheroidal microresonator, the whispering gallery modes in a long cylindrical microresonator are delocalized. Consequently, a circulating light beam that is evanescently coupled into the cylinder and experiences total internal reflection eventually radiates out along the cylinder axis. However, the self-interference of such a beam can produce a resonant mode that is strongly localized along the axial direction. Specifically, the mode characteristic width is (alpha beta)(-1/2), where alpha and beta are the attenuation and propagation constants of the cylinder material. The Q-factor of this mode can be almost as large as the Q-factor of modes in a spheroidal microresonator with the same a divided by 2.542. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America
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