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Whispering gallery mode
Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) occur at particular resonant wavelengths of light confined to a cylindrical or spherical volume with an index of refraction greater than that surrounding it. At these wavelengths, the light undergoes total internal reflection at the volume surface and becomes trapped within the volume for timescales of the order of nanoseconds.
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