2008/12/15 by Henning Schomerus, Jan Wiersig, Jörg Main · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.79.053806
published as Phys. Rev. A 79, 053806 (2009) · 7 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2008/12/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We discuss the statistical properties of lifetimes of electromagnetic eigenmodes in dielectric microresonators with fully chaotic ray dynamics. Using the example of a resonator of stadium geometry, we find that a recently proposed random-matrix model very well describes the lifetime statistics of long-lived resonances, provided that two effective parameters are appropriately renormalized. This renormalization is linked to the formation of anomalously short-lived resonances, a mechanism also known from the fractal Weyl law and the resonance trapping phenomenon.