Evolution of Whispering Gallery Modes in Li-Doped ZnO Hexagonal Micro- and Nanostructures

Whispering gallery modes in indium oxide hexagonal microcavities

Whispering gallery modes

Whispering gallery modes are specific resonances (or modes) of a wave field that are confined inside a given resonator (cavity) with smooth edges due to continuous total internal reflection. The most interesting from a practical viewpoint are electromagnetic whispering gallery modes, since they posses many unique properties, such as ultra-high Q-factors, low mode volumes, small sizes of resonat...

Acoustic whispering-gallery modes in optomechanical shells

We numerically calculate the forms and frequencies of mechanical whispering-gallery modes in silica shells. Such modes were recently experimentally observed in water-filled optomechanical resonators, which constitute a bridge between optomechanics and microfluidics. We consider the three acoustic mode families of Rayleigh–Lamb waves, longitudinal waves and Love waves. Our study shows that these...

Whispering gallery modes inside asymmetric resonant cavities.

Two dimensional resonators with a smooth strictly convex boundary are known to possess a whispering gallery region supporting modes concentrated near the boundary. A new class of asymmetric resonant cavities is introduced, where a whispering gallery-like region is found deep inside the resonator. The construction of such resonators is a novel application of the geometric control methods. The re...

Physics. Creating and probing electron whispering-gallery modes in graphene.

The design of high-finesse resonant cavities for electronic waves faces challenges due to short electron coherence lengths in solids. Complementing previous approaches to confine electronic waves by carefully positioned adatoms at clean metallic surfaces, we demonstrate an approach inspired by the peculiar acoustic phenomena in whispering galleries. Taking advantage of graphene's gate-tunable l...