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Sagnac effect in resonant microcavities

Satoshi Sunada, Takahisa Harayama

physics.opticsarXiv:physics/0607016

Abstract

The Sagnac effect in two dimensional (2D) resonant microcavities is studied theoretically and numerically. The frequency shift due to the Sagnac effect occurs as a threshold phenomenon for the angular velocity in a rotating microcavity. Above the threshold, the eigenfunctions of a rotating microcavity become rotating waves while they are standing waves below the threshold.

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