Whispering gallery mode resonators: modeling the fundamental equations

Gabriele Frigenti, Daniele Farnesi, Stefano Pelli, Giancarlo C Righini, Gualtiero Nunzi Conti and Silvia Soria

CNR-IFAC Institute of Applied Physics ”N. Carrara”, Italy

We present the derivation of the Whispering Gallery Modes of a microbubble resonator and the computation of quantities of interest for the design of experiments. In particular, the article aims at computing stand-alone quantities, such as the field distribution and the modal volume. The theory used to deduce the microbubble WGMs is developed with a formal approach, using analytical expressions as much as possible and resorting to numerical methods only in a few instances. © Anita Publications. All rights reserved.
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Keywords: Whispering Gallery Modes, Acoustic wave, Microbubble resonators.

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