Optical resonance cavity

Almost all rare earth lasers are optically pumped. The lasing material is placed in an optical resonator cavity formed by two mirrors and excited with a flashlamp or continuous light source. The most commonly used pumping... 

The OPA should not be confiised with an optical parametric oscillator (OPO), a resonant-cavity parametric device that is syncln-onously pumped by a femtosecond, mode-locked oscillator. 14 fs pulses, tunable over much of the visible regime, have been obtained by Hache and co-workers [49, with a BBO OPO pumped by a self-mode-locked Ti-sapphire oscillator. 

Freely suspended liquid droplets are characterized by their shape determined by surface tension leading to ideally spherical shape and smooth surface at the subnanometer scale. These properties suggest liquid droplets as optical resonators with extremely high quality factors, limited by material absorption. Liquid microdroplets have found a wide range of applications for cavity-enhanced spectroscopy and in analytical chemistry, where small volumes and a container-free environment is required for example for protein crystallization investigations. This chapter reviews the basic physics and technical implementations of light-matter interactions in liquid-droplet optical cavities. 

The emission linewidth of LEDs is typically 10 nm, which is quite broad in comparison to that achievable with laser diodes. Narrower linewidths down to ca. 0.9 nm can be obtained using resonant cavity LEDs.(61) Superluminescent LEDs have been produced with low spectral ripple (less than 10% at wavelengths down to 670 nm) by suppressing the optical feedback in laser diode junctions.(62)... 

Key words optical resonators photonic crystal defect cavities whispering gallery modes ... 

To demonstrate the method an example of a slow-wave optical structure is modelled. Such structures consist of a cascade of directly coupled optical resonators in order to enhance the nonlinear effects. The structure used here was recently defined within Working Group 2 of the European Action COST Pll (http //w3.uniromal.it/energetica/slow waves.doc). One period of the structure consists of one-dimensional Fabry-Perot cavity placed between two distributed Bragg reflectors (DBR) and can be described by the sequence... 

An embodiment having a cylindrical structure is shown above. The detector element is built on a substrate 24 of p-doped CdTe, CdMnTe, InSb or ZnTe. To facilitate the removal of holes, p+-type regions 30, 30 are embedded in the layer 7. A resonant cavity structure is also provided. The width of the layers 7, 16 and 24 combine to equal one-quarter of the wavelength of the frequency of energy the detector is designed to receive. These layers form a resonating function not unlike the concept of resonating cavities used in optics. 

The third area of interest has been the observation by optical and ESR spectroscopy of intermediates that are produced electrochemically. Electron spin resonance is a useful technique for identifying species that have unpaired electrons, and reviews have documented the power of ESR for unraveling complicated reaction pathways.75-77 A number of cells have been described for use with this technique that fall into two categories—the flow cell in which the reactive intermediate is generated externally and flows into the cavity78 and the in situ generation system where electrodes are placed inside the resonant cavity of the spectrometer.79... 

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