Engineering of the extremely high Q factor in two subwavelength dielectric resonators

Abstract

The high-Q {\it subwavelength} resonances in an isolated dielectric disk modes can be achieved by avoided crossing (anticrossing) of the nonorthogonal TE resonances under variation of the aspect ratio as it was reported by Rybin {\it et al} [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 243901 (2017)]. Traversing over two parameters, the aspect ratio and the distance between two disks, enhances the Q factor by several times compared to the case of the former case of one-parametric avoided crossing in the isolated disk. Therefore successive two-parametric avoided crossing gives multiplicative gain in the Q-factor as it was expected. However if for the single disk its orthogonal resonant modes do not undergo avoided crossing, a presence of the second disk gives removes this restriction and gives rise to the avoided crossing of these modes that enhances the $Q$ factor by two orders in magnitude compared to the case of single disk. Respectively the multipolar decomposition of the anti-bonding resonant mode demonstrates conversion from lower to higher orders of the multipole modes similar to that as shown by Chen {\it et al} [Laser&PhotonicsReviews 13, 1900067 (2019)]. These results are interpreted by that the field configuration at the maximal conversion becomes close to the Mie resonant mode with high orbital momentum in equivalent sphere. For m=1 the resonant modes leakage into both type continua that substantially lowers the Q-factor of the subwavelength resonant modes.