Title | Diffraction-limited high-finesse optical cavities |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Authors | Kleckner D, Irvine WTM, Oemrawsingh SSR, Bouwmeester D |
Journal | Physical Review A |
Volume | 81 |
Issue | 4 |
Pagination | 043814 |
Date Published | 04/2010 |
ISSN | 1050-2947 |
Keywords | Bouwmeester, CNSI, CSC, HP, NSF |
Abstract | High-quality optical cavities with wavelength-sized end mirrors are important to the growing field of micro-optomechanical systems. We present a versatile method for calculating the modes of diffraction limited optical cavities and show that it can be used to determine the effect of a wide variety of cavity geometries and imperfections. Additionally, we show these calculations agree remarkably well with FDTD simulations for wavelength-sized optical modes, even though our method is based on the paraxial approximation. |
URL | http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043814 |
DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043814 |
Grant:
HP, CSC