Chaos-assisted emission from asymmetric resonant cavity microlasers

Susumu Shinohara, Max Planck Society
Takahisa Harayama, NTT Corp
Takehiro Fukushima, Okayama Prefectural University
Martina Hentschel, Max Planck Society
Satoshi Sunada, NTT Corp
Evgenii Narimanov, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University

Date of this Version

5-27-2011

Citation

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

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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

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.

Discipline(s)

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

 

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