Purcell factor reduced scattering losses in optical microcavities

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DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/eqec.2005.1567523
Reference T.J. Kippenberg, A.L. Tchebotareva, J. Kalkman, A. Polman and K.J. Vahala: Purcell factor reduced scattering losses in optical microcavities In: 2005 European Quantum Electronics Conference, Munich, Germany, 12-17 June 2005, New York: IEEE, 2005.
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Scattering induced by silicon nano-particles in a microcavity is investigated for the case of silicon nanocrystal doped microtoroids. A significant enhancement of preferential-scattering into the originally doubly-degenerate cavity eigenmodes is found, exceeding >99.42%.