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Phys. Rev. A 72, 013803 (2005) [12 pages]

Theory of two-dimensional microcavity lasers

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Takahisa Harayama1, Satoshi Sunada1,2, and Kensuke S. Ikeda2
1Department of Nonlinear Science, ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
2Department of Physics Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Noji-cho Kusatsu, Shiga 525-0577, Japan

Received 19 October 2004; published 6 July 2005

We present theoretical models of two-dimensional (2D) microcavity lasers. The relation between stationary lasing modes and resonances or metastable states is elucidated for arbitrary shapes of 2D resonant microcavities.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.013803
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.013803
PACS:
42.55.Sa, 42.65.Sf, 05.10.−a, 05.45.Mt