Directional emission from asymmetric resonant cavities.

Stand-Off Biodetection with Free-Space Coupled Asymmetric Microsphere Cavities

Asymmetric microsphere resonant cavities (ARCs) allow for free-space coupling to high quality (Q) whispering gallery modes (WGMs) while exhibiting highly directional light emission, enabling WGM resonance measurements in the far-field. These remarkable characteristics make "stand-off" biodetection in which no coupling device is required in near-field contact with the resonator possible. Here we...

Chaotic Light: a Theory of Asymmetric Resonant Cavities Jens U. Nöckel and A. Douglas Stone

Spherical and cylindrical dielectric cavities support high Q whispering gallery modes due to total internal reflection of the trapped light. When such a cavity is deformed smoothly the ray dynamics of these modes becomes chaotic in a manner determined by the KAM theory of classical hamiltonian dynamics. The universal properties of the ray dynamics predicted by KAM theory allow a general underst...

Chaotic Light: a Theory of Asymmetric Resonant Cavities

Spherical and cylindrical dielectric cavities support high Q whispering gallery modes due to total internal reflection of the trapped light. When such a cavity is deformed smoothly the ray dynamics of these modes becomes chaotic in a manner determined by the KAM theory of classical hamiltonian dynamics. The universal properties of the ray dynamics predicted by KAM theory allow a general underst...

Asymmetric Resonant Optical Cavities

A new and useful type of optical resonator has been proposed based on the principles of chaos [1]. The asymmetric resonant cavity (ARC) is an extension of the concept of spherical or cylindrical dielectric resonators which have high-Q ”whispering gallery” (WG) modes trapped by total internal reflection [2]. In the ARC such a cylinder or sphere is deformed substantially but in a smooth and conve...

Chaos-assisted emission from asymmetric resonant cavity microlasers