Asymmetric scattering and non-orthogonal mode patterns in optical micro-spirals

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2008-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/0810.1584v1

Physics

Optics

8 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.78.053809

Quasi-bound states in an open system do in general not form an orthogonal and complete basis. It is, however, expected that the non-orthogonality is weak in the case of well-confined states except close to a so-called exceptional point in parameter space. We present numerical evidence showing that for passive optical microspiral cavities the parameter regime where the non-orthogonality is significant is rather broad. Here we observe almost-degenerate pairs of well-confined modes which are highly non-orthogonal. Using a non-Hermitian model Hamiltonian we demonstrate that this interesting phenomenon is related to the asymmetric scattering between clockwise and counterclockwise propagating waves in the spiral geometry. Numerical simulations of ray dynamics reveal a clear ray-wave correspondence.

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