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1University of Vienna, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. peter.asenbaum@univie.ac.at
Optics Letters
|October 4, 2011
Abstract:
We demonstrate a universal cavity stabilization scheme that exploits the intrinsic birefringence of dielectric multilayer mirrors. Homodyne locking using weak mirror birefringence of even an empty Fabry-Perot-type cavity requires neither frequency modulation nor mixing and allows us to generate an error signal that is comparable to more widely used heterodyne stabilization schemes.

