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Synthetic gauge fields for light beams in optical resonators (1504.08162v1)
Published 30 Apr 2015 in physics.optics and quant-ph
Abstract: A method to realize artificial magnetic fields for light waves trapped in passive optical cavities with anamorphic optical elements is theoretically proposed. In particular, when a homogeneous magnetic field is realized, a highly-degenerate Landau level structure for the frequency spectrum of the transverse resonator modes is obtained, corresponding to a cyclotron motion of the optical cavity field. This can be probed by transient excitation of the passive optical resonator.
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