Non-orthogonal cavity modes near exceptional points in the far field

Autor: Jingnan Yang, Shushu Shi, Sai Yan, Rui Zhu, Xiaoming Zhao, Yi Qin, Bowen Fu, Xiqing Chen, Hancong Li, Zhanchun Zuo, Kuijuan Jin, Qihuang Gong, Xiulai Xu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Communications Physics, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3650
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-023-01508-2
Popis: Abstract Non-orthogonal eigenstates are a fundamental feature of non-Hermitian systems and are accompanied by the emergence of nontrivial features. However, the platforms to explore non-Hermitian mode couplings mainly measure near-field effects, and the far-field behaviours remain mostly unexplored. Here, we study how a microcavity with non-Hermitian mode coupling exhibits eigenstate non-orthogonality by investigating the spatial field and the far-field polarization of cavity modes. The non-Hermiticity arises from asymmetric backscattering, which is controlled by integrating two scatterers of different size and location into a microdisk. We observe that the spatial field overlap of two modes increases abruptly to its maximum value, whilst different far-field elliptical polarizations of two modes coalesce when approaching an exceptional point. We demonstrate such features experimentally by measuring the far-field polarization from the fabricated microdisks. Our work reveals the non-orthogonality in the far-field degree of freedom, and the integrability of the microdisks paves a way to integrate more non-Hermitian optical properties into nanophotonic systems.
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