title: Signature of ray chaos in quasibound wave functions for a stadium-shaped dielectric cavity.
abstract: Light emission from a dielectric cavity with a stadium shape is studied in both ray and wave models. For a passive cavity mode with low loss, a remarkable correspondence is found between the phase space representation of a quasibound wave function and its counterpart distribution in the ray model. This result provides additional and more direct evidence for good ray-wave correspondence in low-loss modes previously observed at the level of far-field emission pattern comparisons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nonlinear Science, ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan.
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shinohara
authors.forename: Takahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harayama