• DocumentCode
    577895
  • Title

    Modeling Sagnac effect in micro resonators using FDTD method

  • Author

    Novitski, Roman ; Scheuer, Jacob ; Steinberg, Ben Z.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng., Tel-Aviv Univ., Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-27 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    139
  • Lastpage
    140
  • Abstract
    We present a novel FDTD method for studying optics in rotating microrings. We find that in contrast to commonly thought, the Sagnac frequency splitting depends on the group index and not on the effective index.
  • Keywords
    Sagnac interferometers; finite difference time-domain analysis; micro-optics; optical resonators; optical rotation; FDTD method; Sagnac effect; Sagnac frequency splitting; effective index; finite difference time-domain analysis; group index; microresonators; rotating microrings; Finite difference methods; Indexes; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Resonant frequency; Sagnac interferometers; Time domain analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Burlingame, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0731-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358528
  • Filename
    6358528