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Optical Processes in Microcavities

A new generation of optical microresonators is making possible the exploration of quantum electrodynamic phenomena in condensed matter systems and providing microlasers with a wide range of potential applications.

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Studies of optical microresonators with dimensions between 0.1 and 10 microns are now under way in a wide variety of condensed matter systems. Ideally, one can isolate a single mode of the optical field in a cube a half-wavelength on a side with perfectly reflecting walls. Liquid droplets, polymer spheres and semiconductor Fabry-Perot microcavities with dielectric mirrors are examples of microresonators with which one can approach this ideal limit and nearly isolate a few modes of the electromagnetic field from the continuum of surrounding free-space modes.

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  1. NTT Basic Research Laboratory, Stanford University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshihisa Yamamoto (professor)

  2. AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA

    Richart E. Slusher (head of the optical physics research department)

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  1. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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  2. Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

    Claude Weisbuch

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Yamamoto, Y., Slusher, R.E. (1995). Optical Processes in Microcavities. In: Burstein, E., Weisbuch, C. (eds) Confined Electrons and Photons. NATO ASI Series, vol 340. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1963-8_46

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