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View SchemaFresnel filtering in lasing emission from scarred modes of wave-chaotic optical resonators
| Authors | N. B. Rex, H. E. Tureci, H. G. L. Schwefel, R. K. Chang, A. Douglas Stone |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0105089 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0105089 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.094102 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 094102 (2002) |
Abstract
We study lasing emission from asymmetric resonant cavity (ARC) GaN micro-lasers. By comparing far-field intensity patterns with images of the micro-laser we find that the lasing modes are concentrated on three-bounce unstable periodic ray orbits, i.e. the modes are scarred. The high-intensity emission directions of these scarred modes are completely different from those predicted by applying Snell's law to the ray orbit. This effect is due to the process of ``Fresnel filtering'' which occurs when a beam of finite angular spread is incident at the critical angle for total internal reflection.
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