RAY CHAOS AND Q SPOILING IN LASING DROPLETS

Authors
MEKIS A NOCKEL JU CHEN G STONE AD CHANG RK
Citation
A. Mekis et al., RAY CHAOS AND Q SPOILING IN LASING DROPLETS, Physical review letters, 75(14), 1995, pp. 2682-2685
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
75
Issue
14
Year of publication
1995
Pages
2682 - 2685
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1995)75:14<2682:RCAQSI>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
It is proposed that the spoiling of high-Q whispering gallery modes in deformed dielectric spheres can be understood as a transition to chao tic ray dynamics which can no longer be confined by total internal ref lection. This is a Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser/Lazutkin transition for lig ht. The theory is applied to explain the lasing properties of droplets .