Chirality of a resonance in the absence of backscatterings

Opt Express. 2017 Feb 20;25(4):3381-3386. doi: 10.1364/OE.25.003381.

Abstract

Chirality of a resonance localized on an islands chain is studied in a deformed Reuleaux triangular-shaped microcavity, where clockwise and counter clockwise traveling rays are classically separated. A resonance localized on a period-5 islands chain exhibits chiral emission due to the asymmetric cavity shape. Chirality is experimentally proved in a InGaAsP multi-quantum-well semiconductor laser by showing that the experimental emission characteristics well coincide with the wave dynamical ones.