Discovery of Bragg confined hybrid modes with high Q factor in a hollow dielectric resonator

Abstract

The authors report on observation of Bragg confined mode in a hollow cylindrical dielectric cavity. A resonance was observed at 13.4GHz with an unloaded Q factor of order 2×105, which is more than a factor of 6 above the dielectric loss limit. Previously, such modes have only been realized from pure transverse electric modes with no azimuthal variations and only the Eϕ component. From rigorous numeric simulations, it is shown that the mode is a hybrid mode with nonzero azimuthal variations and with dominant Er and Eϕ electric field components and Hz magnetic field component.