paper

Observation of an exceptional point in a chaotic optical microcavity

arXiv:0905.4478 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.134101

Abstract

We present spectroscopic observation of an exceptional point or the transition point between diabatic crossing and avoided crossing of neighboring quasi-eigenmodes in a chaotic optical microcavity with a large size parameter. The transition to the avoided crossing was impeded until the degree of deformation exceeded a threshold deformation owing to the system's openness also enhanced by the shape deformation. As a result, a singular topology was observed around the exceptional point on the eigenfrequency surfaces, resulting in fundamental inconsistency in mode labeling.

4 pages, 4 figures

References in corpus (4)

Cited by in corpus (128)