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Light Confinement in Microtubes

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Quantum Materials, Lateral Semiconductor Nanostructures, Hybrid Systems and Nanocrystals

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We review recent developments in the field of light confinement in semiconductor microtube resonators fabricated by utilizing the self-rolling mechanism of strained bilayers. We discuss resonant optical modes in the framework of a waveguide model that naturally explains the occurrence of two-dimensional ring modes by constructive interference of light azimuthally guided by the tube wall. Experiments show that diverse geometries of a microtube have strong impact on the emission properties, including preferential and directional emission, as well as on a three-dimensional light confinement. We show that by lithographically structuring the microtube, it is possible to reach a three-dimensional confinement in a fully controlled way. The evolving confined modes can be described by an intuitive model using an expanded waveguide approach together with an adiabatic separation of the circulating and the axial light propagation.

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Kipp, T., Strelow, C., Heitmann, D. (2010). Light Confinement in Microtubes. In: Heitmann, D. (eds) Quantum Materials, Lateral Semiconductor Nanostructures, Hybrid Systems and Nanocrystals. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10553-1_7

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