Broadband and high resolution measurements of cavity loss and dispersion

Authors

  • Dominik Andrzej Charczun Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
  • Grzegorz Kowzan Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
  • Agata Cygan Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
  • Ryszard S. Trawiński Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
  • Daniel Lisak Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
  • Piotr Masłowski Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.v10i2.820

Abstract

We present a method for broadband measurements of dispersion and loss of an optical cavity. We employ an optical frequency comb directly coupled into a cavity to scan the cavity modes and retrieve their shapes and positions. The measurement data is acquired using instrumental-line-shape-free Fourier transform spectrometry. This method can be developed into a powerful tool for optical loss and dispersion measurements for broadband characterization of optical elements as well as absorption and dispersion spectroscopy.

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2018-06-30

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D. A. Charczun, G. Kowzan, A. Cygan, R. S. Trawiński, D. Lisak, and P. Masłowski, “Broadband and high resolution measurements of cavity loss and dispersion”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 48–50, Jun. 2018.

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018)

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