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
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