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Prof. Eden Figueroa Lecture 5: Fabry-Perot resonators PHY 452/562 Lasers and Modern Optics Sept 10 th 2013

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Prof. Eden Figueroa

Lecture 5: Fabry-Perot resonators

PHY 452/562 Lasers and Modern Optics

Sept 10th 2013

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Experimental Intermezzo. Optical resonators. Fabry‐Perot theory. Resonator’s stability. Applications.

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Experimental Intermezzo

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This is one of the experiments to be performed in the lab:

Assume a beam propagating in the z‐direction with a Gaussian intensity profile:

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The total power in the beam is:

Consider the knife edge being translated in the x‐direction

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Making the substitutions:

Here we use the definition of the error function:

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To fit the data, we have to use a fitting function of the form:

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Fabry‐Perot resonators

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The first interferometer was constructed by Fabry and his colleague, Alfred Perot, in 1897.

It consisted of two perfectly flat glass plates coated on their parallel facing surfaces with thin silver films.

Alfred PerotCharles Fabry

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Jamin’s interferometer ‐ 1856 Mach‐Zehnder interferometer ‐ 1892

Michelson interferometer ‐ 1882 The multi‐beam interferometer by A. Fabryand Ch. Perot, 1897

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Fabry‐Perot Interferometers

• A cavity with highly reflective mirrors parallel to each other  Acts like a resonator • Also called etalon 

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Fabry‐Perot interferometers

reflected

incident

transmitted

Resonance condition: reflected wave = 0

⇔ all reflected waves interfere destructively

wavelength in free space

refractive index

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Relation between r, r’and t, t’ (Stokes relations)

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Calculation of the reflected wave

air glass air

incoming

reflected

transmitted

transmitted

reflected

reflected

reflected

reflected

transmitted transmitted

transmitted

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Calculation of the reflected wave

Use Stokes relationships

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Transmission & reflection coefficients

reflectioncoefficient

transmissioncoefficient