{"title":"Whispering gallery resonator based on index profiling","authors":"Yanyan Zhou, F. Luan, Di Zhu, Xia Yu","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6457986","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A novel whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonator that relies on index profiling instead of shape variation to confine light is proposed and theoretically studied. Analytical derivations show that a parabolic index profile along the resonator axial direction is able to confine light within its two caustics. This enables efficient coupling of WGM by applying evanescent couplers at the caustics.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6457986","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A novel whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonator that relies on index profiling instead of shape variation to confine light is proposed and theoretically studied. Analytical derivations show that a parabolic index profile along the resonator axial direction is able to confine light within its two caustics. This enables efficient coupling of WGM by applying evanescent couplers at the caustics.