Large-mode enhancement cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 11606-11617

  Carstens, Henning ^a,b   Holzberger, Simon ^a,b   Kaster, Jan ^a,b   Weitenberg, Johannes ^c   Pervak, Volodymyr ^b   Apolonski, Alexander ^a,b   Fill, Ernst ^a,b   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,b   Pupeza, Ioachim ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESONATORS;

COMPENSATION SCHEME; ENHANCEMENT CAVITIES; INTENSITY LEVELS; MISALIGNMENT SENSITIVITY; NEAR-INFRARED LASERS; POWER ENHANCEMENT; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; SPHERICAL MIRROR;

MIRRORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84878550637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011606     Document Type: Article

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