title: Quasiscarred resonances in a spiral-shaped microcavity.
abstract: We study resonance patterns of a spiral-shaped dielectric microcavity with chaotic ray dynamics. Many resonance patterns of this microcavity, with refractive indices n=2 and 3, exhibit strong localization of simple geometric shape, and we call them quasiscarred resonances in the sense that there is, unlike conventional scarring, no underlying periodic orbits. It is shown that the formation of a quasiscarred pattern can be understood in terms of ray dynamical probability distributions and wave properties like uncertainty and interference.
authors.affiliation: National Creative Research Initiative Center for Controlling Optical Chaos, Pai-Chai University, Daejeon 302-735, Korea.
authors.forename: Soo-Young
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sunghwan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rim
authors.forename: Jung-Wan
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Ryu
authors.forename: Tae-Yoon
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: Muhan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Chil-Min
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Kim