Husimi Functions for Coupled Optical Resonators

Abstract

Phase-space analysis has been widely used in the past for the study of optical resonant systems. While it is usually employed to analyze the far-field behaviour of resonant systems we focus here on its applicability to coupling problems. By looking at the phase-space description of both the resonant mode and the exciting source it is possible to understand the coupling mechanisms as well as to gain insights and approximate the coupling behaviour with reduced computational efforts. In this work we develop the framework for this idea and apply it to a system of an asymmetric dielectric resonator coupled to a waveguide.