Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2006-11-09
Physics
Quantum Physics
10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques. Last revision March 19 2007. This paper is a significa
Scientific paper
This paper explains how a popular, commercially-available software package for solving partial-differential-equations (PDEs), as based on the finite-element method (FEM), can be configured to calculate, efficiently, the frequencies and fields of the whispering-gallery (WG) modes of axisymmetric dielectric resonators. The approach is traceable; it exploits the PDE-solver's ability to accept the definition of solutions to Maxwell's equations in so-called `weak form'. Associated expressions and methods for estimating a WG mode's volume, filling factor(s) and, in the case of closed(open) resonators, its wall(radiation) loss, are provided. As no transverse approximation is imposed, the approach remains accurate even for quasi-transverse magnetic/electric modes of low, finite azimuthal mode order. The approach's generality and utility are demonstrated by modeling several non-trivial structures: (i) two different optical microcavities [one toroidal made of silica, the other an AlGaAs microdisk]; (ii) a 3rd-order sapphire:air Bragg cavity; (iii) two different cryogenic sapphire WG-mode resonators; both (ii) and (iii) operate in the microwave X-band. By fitting one of (iii) to a set of measured resonance frequencies, the dielectric constants of sapphire at liquid-helium temperature have been estimated.
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