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Applied Physics Letters / Volume 99 / Issue 24 / LASERS, OPTICS, AND OPTOELECTRONICS

Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 241107 (2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3670354 (4 pages)

Resonant enhancement of magneto-optical polarization conversion in microdisk resonators

Lev Deych1, Carlos Meriles2, and Vinod Menon1

1Physics Department, Queens College of CUNY, Flushing, New York 11367, USA
2Physics Department of City College of CUNY, New York 10031, USA

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(Received 30 August 2011; accepted 27 November 2011; published online 13 December 2011)

We theoretically investigate the effect of a periodically modulated magnetic field on the polarization properties of whispering-gallery-modes (WGM) in microdisk resonators. We show that by matching the modulation frequency to the frequency offset between WGMs with two mutually perpendicular polarizations one can achieve an enhancement of the magneto-optical polarization effect by a factor of M1/3QM(av), where M is the modal order of the WGM and QM(av) is the geometric average of the quality factors of the TE and TM polarized modes.

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Keywords

light polarisation, magneto-optical effects, magneto-optical modulation, micromechanical resonators, optical modulation, optical resonators, Q-factor, whispering gallery modes

PACS

  • 85.70.Sq

    Magnetooptical devices

  • 42.79.-e

    Optical elements, devices, and systems

  • 85.85.+j

    Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices

  • 07.10.Cm

    Micromechanical devices and systems

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3670354

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0003-6951 (print)  
1077-3118 (online)

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