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Fabian Zomer1, Yasmina Fedala, Nicolas Pavloff

  • 1Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, CNRS, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et Physiquedes Particules, Université Paris Sud, Bâtiment 200, BP 34 Orsay Cedex, France. zomer@lal.in2p3.fr

Applied Optics
|December 17, 2009
PubMed
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Researchers investigated four-mirror optical resonators for passive stacking cavities. A tetrahedral mirror arrangement significantly enhances mechanical stability and reduces polarization instabilities in high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavities.

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