Abstract

We study emission from quasi-one-dimensional modes of an asymmetric resonant cavity that are associated with a stable periodic ray orbit confined inside the cavity by total internal reflection. It is numerically demonstrated that such modes exhibit directional emission, which is explained by chaos-assisted emission induced by dynamical tunneling. Fabricating semiconductor microlasers with an asymmetric resonant cavity, we experimentally demonstrate the selective excitation of the quasi-one-dimensional modes by employing the device structure to preferentially inject currents to these modes and observe directional emission in good accordance with the theoretical prediction based on chaos-assisted emission.

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Susumu Shinohara, Takahisa Harayama, Takehiro Fukushima, Martina Hentschel, Satoshi Sunada, and Evgenii E. Narimanov.(27 May 2011). Chaos-assisted emission from asymmetric resonant cavity microlasers. First published in the Physical Review A and is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053837

Keywords

STADIUM LASER-DIODES; DIRECTIONAL EMISSION; DIELECTRIC MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL CAVITIES; ANNULAR BILLIARD; MIXED SYSTEMS; LASING MODES; DEPENDENCE

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053837

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Chaos-assisted emission from asymmetric resonant cavity microlasers Susumu Shinohara, Takahisa Harayama, Takehiro Fukushima, Martina Hentschel, Satoshi Sunada, and Evgenii E. Narimanov Phys. Rev. A 83, 053837 – Published 27 May 2011

Date of this Version

5-27-2011

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