Research Talks
Whispering Gallery Modes
Introduces a modular two-ring resonator in which a photon circulates on a ring, giving degenerate modes whose fields can be confined in vacuum or in a substrate. The talk covers mode identification, power-independent internal quality factors, energy-relaxation and phase-coherence measurements, and how surface impedance and participation ratios set loss bounds for thin-film aluminum and sapphire at the single-photon level.
- Photon-on-a-ring concept, degenerate modes, and common vs. differential modes
- Modular sample holder for testing metals or dielectrics
- Quality factor vs. power, T1 from ring-down, and phase coherence analysis
- Dissipation budget: surface impedance, aluminum film loss, sapphire loss tangent
Summary and key points drafted by a language model from the slides, not yet reviewed by me. The slides are the source.
Cite
@misc{minev2012whisperinggallery,
author = {Zlatko K. Minev},
title = {{Whispering Gallery Modes}},
howpublished = {Talk},
year = {2012},
url = {https://zlatko-minev.github.io/zlatko-minev-quantum-repository/items/2012-whispering-gallery-modes/},
note = {Slides}
}Reuse
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