Measurement of mirror birefringence at the sub-ppm level: proposed application to a test of QED

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 013815-013811

  Hall, John L ^a,b   Ye, Jun ^a,b   Ma, Long Sheng ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT MODULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CAVITY MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; FABRY-PEROT FRINGES; LASER LOCKING; PHOTOREFRACTIVE ACTIVITIES;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 0034227267     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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