Title : 
Whispering gallery modes disclosed by a fs-wavepacket in a spiral-shaped microcavity
         
        
            Author : 
Courvoisier, Frangois ; Boutou, Vkmnique ; Wolf, Jean-Pierre ; Chang, Richard K. ; Hierle, Rolland ; Zyss, Joseph
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Lab. de Spectrometrie Ionique et Moleculaire, Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon I, Villeurbanne, France
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Ballistic trajectories of a femtosecond-wavepacket along whispering gallery modes (WGM) of a spiral-shaped PMMA-DCM microcavity are demonstrated by pump-probe spectroscopy. The pulse scattering on the spiral notch does not prevent its partial recoupling in WGM.
         
        
            Keywords : 
fluorescence; high-speed optical techniques; microcavities; nonlinear optics; optical polymers; two-photon spectra; whispering gallery modes; PMMA-DCM microcavity; ballistic trajectories; femtosecond-wavepacket; fluorescence spectroscopy; partial recoupling; pulse scattering; pump-probe spectroscopy; spiral notch; spiral-shaped microcavity; two-photon-excited spectroscopy; whispering gallery modes;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-55752-777-6