Abstract

High detector efficiency has broad appeal and includes such diverse fields as quantum optics and solar energy. An optical resonator can improve detector efficiency by employing multiple re-reflections to the detector. This short paper uses geometric ray tracing to examine—for a given entry port size—the probability that a photon will escape from an ideal perfectly reflective two-dimensional cavity.

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