TY - JOUR
T1 - Signature of Wave Chaos in Spectral Characteristics of Microcavity Lasers
AU - Sunada, Satoshi
AU - Shinohara, Susumu
AU - Fukushima, Takehiro
AU - Harayama, Takahisa
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge Professor A. D. Stone and Professor H. Cao for fruitful discussions and insightful comments. This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 26790056.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Physical Society.
PY - 2016/5/20
Y1 - 2016/5/20
N2 - We report an experimental investigation on the spectra of fully chaotic and nonchaotic microcavity lasers under continuous-wave operating conditions. It is found that fully chaotic microcavity lasers operate in single mode, whereas nonchaotic microcavity lasers operate in multimode. The suppression of multimode lasing for fully chaotic microcavity lasers is explained by large spatial overlaps of the resonance wave functions that spread throughout the two-dimensional cavity due to the ergodicity of chaotic ray orbits.
AB - We report an experimental investigation on the spectra of fully chaotic and nonchaotic microcavity lasers under continuous-wave operating conditions. It is found that fully chaotic microcavity lasers operate in single mode, whereas nonchaotic microcavity lasers operate in multimode. The suppression of multimode lasing for fully chaotic microcavity lasers is explained by large spatial overlaps of the resonance wave functions that spread throughout the two-dimensional cavity due to the ergodicity of chaotic ray orbits.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.203903
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.203903
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84969802072
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 116
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 20
M1 - 203903
ER -