Polarization induced instabilities in external four-mirror Fabry - Perot cavities

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 6651-6661

  Zomer, Fabian ^a   Fedala, Yasmina ^a   Pavloff, Nicolas ^b   Soskov, Viktor ^a   Variola, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CAVITY RESONATORS; MECHANICAL STABILITY; MIRRORS; POLARIZATION;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EIGEN MODES; FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; MIRROR MISALIGNMENT; OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; TETRAHEDRAL CONFIGURATIONS;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 73549125592     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006651     Document Type: Article

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