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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 27: Quantum chaos II
DY 27.2: Talk
Thursday, February 28, 2008, 14:45–15:00, MA 004
Modifications of the phase space structure of optical microcavities due to the Goos-Hänchen shift — •Julia Unterhinninghofen1, Jan Wiersig1, and Martina Hentschel2 — 1Institut für theoretische Physik, Universität Bremen, Postfach 330 440, 28334 Bremen — 2Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden
Optical microcavities have important applications in various different fields of physics [1]. In the quantum chaos community microdisk cavities with deformed cross-sectional shape attracted considerable attention since they can be used to study the ray-wave correspondence in open systems in direct comparison to experiments [2,3]. As recent experimental progress allows for smaller and smaller cavities, wave corrections to the ray dynamics become highly relevant. We theoretically study the influence of the most important correction, the Goos-Hänchen shift [4], on the phase space structure of optical microcavities. We find an interesting relation to scarlike modes near avoided resonance crossings [5].
[1] K. J. Vahala, Nature 424, 839 (2003). [2] J. U. Nöckel and A. D. Stone, Nature 385, 45 (1997). [3] C. Gmachl et al., Science 280, 1556 (1998). [4] H. Schomerus and M. Hentschel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243903 (2006). [5] J. Wiersig, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253901 (2006).