%0 Journal Article
%T Synthetic gauge fields for light beams in optical resonators
%A Stefano Longhi
%J Physics
%D 2015
%I arXiv
%X 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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.08162v1