Birefringence, mirrors, and parity violation

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 54-55

  Wood, Chris ^a   Bennett, S C ^a   Roberts, J L ^a   Cho, D ^a   Wieman, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 3843151031     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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References (9)

1. A. Yariv, Optical Electronics, (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston Inc., N.Y., 1985).
2. Our mirrors are made by Research Electro-Optics Inc., Boulder, Colorado. The parity experiment has benefitted from a collaboration with REO for many years.
3. 3 in an external cavity," Optics Letters 16, 1400 (1991), and references therein.
4. H. R. Bilger et al., "Geometrical dependence of polarisation in near-planar ring lasers," Opt. Comm. 80, 133 (1990).
5. D. Jacob, et al., "Supermirror phase anisotropy measurement," Opt. Lett. 20, 671 (1995).
6. New Focus Picomotors model #8303, single axis driver #8701, and control pad #8620.
7. The mirror mount and rotation stage (modified quite a bit for use in this application) were built from standard JILA opto-mechanical equipment.
8. M. C. Noecker et al., "Precision measurement of parity nonconservation in atomic cesium: A low-energy test of the electroweak theory," Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 310 (1988).
9. W. J. Marciano et al., "Atomic Parity Violation as a Probe of New Physics,"Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2963 (1990).