Sagnac effect in resonant microcavities
Abstract
The Sagnac effect in two-dimensional resonant microcavities is studied theoretically and numerically. The frequency shift due to the Sagnac effect occurs as a threshold phenomenon for the angular velocity in a rotating microcavity. Above the threshold, the eigenfunctions of a rotating microcavity become rotating waves while they are standing waves below the threshold.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- August 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.021801
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0607016
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhRvA..74b1801S
- Keywords:
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- 42.55.Sa;
- 03.65.Pm;
- 41.20.-q;
- Microcavity and microdisk lasers;
- Relativistic wave equations;
- Applied classical electromagnetism;
- Physics - Optics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures