Temporal behavior of an unstable optical cavity

Olivier Emile; Dominique Chauvat; Albert Le Floch; Fabien Bretenaker

doi:10.1364/OL.24.000022

Temporal behavior of an unstable optical cavity

Olivier Emile, Dominique Chauvat, Albert Le Floch, Fabien Bretenaker

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The relaxation of a geometrically unstable Fabry-Perot cavity is theoretically and experimentally investigated. It is observed that the usual sum of the exponential decays of the intensities in the different transverse modes of the cavity is replaced by a more complex behavior. In particular, light couplings into the fundamental mode of the cavity with initial wave excitation factors larger than unity, i.e., larger than in the case of mode-matched injection, are directly observed. The influence of the cavity Fresnel number and of transverse mode crossings and anticrossings on these cavity decays is isolated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	22-24
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.24.000022
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1999
Externally published	Yes

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