Measurement of ultralow supermirror birefringence by use of the polarimetric differential cavity ringdown technique

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1941-1945

  Lee, Jae Yong ^a   Lee, Hai Woong ^a   Kim, Jae Wan ^b   Yoo, Yong Shim ^b   Hahn, Jae Won ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELLIPSOMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION;

SUPERMIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0001039026     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001941     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. S. L. Gilbert and C. E. Wieman, “Atomic-beam measurement of parity nonconservation in cesium, ” Phys. Rev. A 34, 792-803 (1986).
2. D. M. Meekhof, P. Vetter, P. K. Majumder, S. K. Lamoreaux, and E. N. Forston, “High-precision measurement of parity nonconserving optical rotation in atomic lead, ” Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 3442-3445 (1993).
3. A. Abramovici, W. E. Althouse, R. W. P. Drever, Y. Gursel, S. Kawamura, F. J. Raab, D. Shoemaker, L. Sievers, R. E. Spero, K. S. Thorne, R. E. Vogt, R. Weiss, S. E. Whitcomb, and M. E. Zucker, “LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, ” Science 256, 325-333 (1992).
4. R. J. Brecha, L. M. Pedrotti, and D. Krause, “Magnetic rotation spectroscopy of molecular oxygen with a diode laser, ” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 1921-1930 (1997).
5. S. Viciani, P. De Natale, L. Gianfrani, and M. Inguscio, “Magnetic-field effects on molecular transitions in the far-infrared region: prospects for more-sensitive spectrometers, ” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 301-307 (1997).
6. M. Vallet, F. Bretenaker, A. Le Floch, R. Le Naour, and M. Oger, “The Malus Fabry-Perot interferometer, ” Opt. Commun. 168, 423-443 (1999).
7. Y. Le Grand and A. Le Floch, “Measurement of small optical activities by use of helicoidal waves, ” Opt. Lett. 17, 360-362 (1992).
8. D. Jacob, M. Vallet, F. Bretenaker, A. Le Floch, and R. Le Naour, “Small Faraday rotation measurement with a Fabry-Perot cavity, ” Appl. Phys. Lett. 66, 3546-3548 (1995).
9. H. R. Bilger, G. E. Stedman, and P. V. Wells, “Geometrical dependence of polarization in near-planar ring lasers, ” Opt. Commun. 80, 133-137 (1990).
10. P. Micossi, F. Della Valle, E. Milotti, E. Zavattini, C. Rizzo, and G. Ruoso, “Measurement of the birefringence properties of the reflecting surface of an interferential mirror, ” Appl. Phys. B 57, 95-98 (1993).
11. S. Carusotto, E. Placco, E. Iacopini, G. Stefanini, E. Zavattini, and F. Scuri, “The ellipticity introduced by interferential mirrors on a linearly polarized light beam orthogonally reflected, ” Appl. Phys. B 48, 231-234 (1989).
12. D. Jacob, F. Bretenaker, P. Pourcelot, P. Rio, M. Dumont, and A. Dore, “Pulsed measurement of high-reflectivity mirror phase retardances, ” Appl. Opt. 33, 3175-3178 (1994).
13. Y. Le Grand and A. Le Floch, “Sensitive dichroism measurements using eigenstate decay times, ” Appl. Opt. 29, 1244-1246 (1990).
14. R. Engeln, G. Berden, E. van den Berg, and G. Meijer, “Polarization dependent cavity ring down spectroscopy, ” J. Chem. Phys. 107, 4458-4467 (1997).
15. D. Jacob, M. Vallet, F. Bretenaker, A. Le Floch, and M. Oger, “Supermirror phase anisotropy measurement, ” Opt. Lett. 20, 671-673 (1995).
16. A. O’Keefe and D. A. G. Deacon, “Cavity ring-down optical spectrometer for absorption measurements using pulsed laser sources, ” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 59, 2544-2551 (1988).
17. D. Romanini, A. A. Kachanov, N. Sadeghi, and F. Stoeckel, “CW cavity ring down spectroscopy, ” Chem. Phys. Lett. 264, 316-322 (1997).
18. J. W. Hahn, Y. S. Yoo, J. Y. Lee, J. W. Kim, and H.-W. Lee, “Cavity ring-down spectroscopy with a continuous wave laser: calculation of coupling efficiency and a new spectrometer design, ” Applied Optics 38, 1859-1866 (1999).
19. G. Rempe, R. J. Thompson, H. J. Kimble, and R. Lalezari, “Measurement of ultralow losses in an optical interferometer, ” Opt. Lett. 17, 363-365 (1992).
20. J. Y. Lee, H.-W. Lee, and J. W. Hahn, “Time domain study on cavity ring-down signals from a Fabry-Perot cavity under pulsed laser excitations, ” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 38, Pt. 1, 6287-6297 (1999).