Abstract

Using theoretical approaches of ray and wave chaos, Nockel and Stone have recently proposed a new type of optical microresonators, such as deformed cylinders and spheres, that enable highly directional emission from high-Q whispering gallery modes (WGMs).¹ These high-Q WGM microresonators can be used in a variety of optical applications such as microlasers, nonlinear optics, cavity QED, and optical switching and routing, and can also be used as a model system to investigate physical phenomena associated with ray and wave chaos.

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