Dynamical thermal behavior and thermal self-stability of microcavities

By T. Carmon, Lan Yang, Kerry J. Vahala. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004

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Stability and continuous operation are important for almost any use of a microcavity, we demonstrate here experimentally and theoretically self-stable equilibrium solution for a pump-microcavity system; this mechanism is derived by the thermal nonlinearity.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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