Directional emission from an optical resonator

Michael White

University of Nottingham, School of Mathematical Sciences, Nottingham, UK

Light emission from optical cavities can show strong directionality even for small deformations of a circular cavity. In order to model the emission patterns produced by an elliptical cavity, the invariants of the ray dynamics in the interior of the cavity are introduced. These invariants are then used to extend the wavefunction to the exterior of the cavity using a modified version of Wilkinson's formula and the corresponding model for the Q factor is introduced.

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