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Published August 15, 2006 | Published
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Comment on 'Exact solution of resonant modes in a rectangular resonator'

Abstract

We comment on the recent Letter by J. Wu and A. Liu [Opt. Lett. 31, 1720 (2006)] in which an exact scalar solution to the resonant modes and the resonant frequencies in a two-dimensional rectangular microcavity were presented. The analysis is incorrect because (a) the field solutions were imposed to satisfy simultaneously both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions at the four sides of the rectangle, leading to an overdetermined problem, and (b) the modes in the cavity were expanded using an incorrect series ansatz, leading to an expression for the mode fields that does not satisfy the Helmholtz equation.

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© 2006 Optical Society of America Received May 11, 2006; revised May 24, 2006; accepted May 25, 2006; posted June 14, 2006 (Doc. ID 70863); published July 25, 2006 This research was supported by the Tecnológico de Monterrey (grant CAT-007) and by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (grant 42808). M. Bandres acknowledges support from Secretaría de Educación Pública.

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