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Whispering gallery mode hybridization in photonic molecules
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2017.
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Abstract
- This work takes inspiration from chemistry where the spectral characteristics of the molecules are determined by hybridization of electronic states evolving from the individual atomic orbitals. Based on analogy between quantum mechanics and the classical electrodynamics, we sorted dielectric microspheres with almost identical positions of their whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonances. Using these microspheres as classical photonic atoms, we assembled them in a wide range of structures including linear chains and planar photonic molecules. We studied WGM hybridization effects in such structures using side coupling by tapered microfibers as well as finite difference time domain modeling. We demonstrated that the patterns of WGM spectral splitting are representative of the symmetry, number of constituting atoms and topology of the photonic molecules which in principle can be viewed as “spectral signatures” of various molecules. We also show new ways of controlling WGM coupling constants in such molecules. Excellent agreement was found between measured transmission spectra and spectral signatures of photonic molecules predicted by simulation.<br />The authors gratefully acknowledge support from U.S. Army Research Office through Dr. J. T. Prater under Contract No. W911NF‐09‐1‐0450 and DURIP W911NF‐11‐1‐0406 and W911NF‐12‐1‐0538. This work was also supported by Center for Metamaterials, an NSF I/U CRC, Award No. 1068050. Also, this work was sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/RYD, AFRL/RXC) through the AMMTIAC contract with Alion Science and Technology and the MCF II contract with UES, Inc.
- Subjects :
- Physics::Optics
FOS: Physical sciences
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
Microsphere
010309 optics
0103 physical sciences
Center (algebra and category theory)
Physics - Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Physics
Quantum Physics
business.industry
Metamaterial
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Condensed Matter Physics
Engineering physics
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Whispering-gallery wave
Photonics
0210 nano-technology
business
Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Physics - Optics
Optics (physics.optics)
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f0cf0e2aa7a18a74f763799b7c59cdd7
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1703.01399