Scattering induced by silicon nano-particles in a microcavity is investigated for the case of silicon nanocrystal doped microtoroids. A significant enhancement of preferential-scattering into the originally doubly-degenerate cavity eigenmodes is found, exceeding >99.42%.

New York: IEEE
doi.org/10.1109/eqec.2005.1567523
Photonic Materials

Kippenberg, T., Tchebotareva, A. L., Kalkman, J., Polman, A., & Vahala, K. J. (2005). Purcell factor reduced scattering losses in optical microcavities. In 2005 European Quantum Electronics Conference, Munich, Germany, 12-17 June 2005. doi:10.1109/eqec.2005.1567523