Quality-factor enhancement of supermodes in coupled microdisks
| M. Benyoucef, J.-B. Shim, J. Wiersig, O. G. Schmidt Opt. Lett. 36, 1317 (2011) URL PDF |
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| Abstract | |
| We investigate the optical modes in a coupled pair of semiconductor microdisks in symmetric and asymmetric configurations both experimentally and theoretically. While the quality factors of coupled first- and second-order whispering gallery modes (WGMs) show a conventional crossing, the quality factors of the same-order WGMs reveal an interesting splitting behavior, leading to the formation of high- and low-quality supermodes. Our results are reproduced by numerical simulations, and an explanation based on optical interference is suggested. Quality-factor splitting is a subtle phenomenon that might help to design microarchitectures for efficient optical coupling in cavity quantum electrodynamic experiments. |