Abstract

Microcavity lasers are important both for the study of basic optical physics and as new sources of coherent light. Here, we present a new microcavity with a fundasphere within a Fabry-Perot resonator. In this case the Fabry-Perot resonator provides longitudinal confinement and the dielectric sphere provides lateral confinement of the optical field. We study the lasing modes (spectral and spatial) produced in this idealized hybrid microcavity resonator with the intent of extending the study to the case of arbitrarily shaped objects for device application.

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