Understanding and suppressing backscatter in optical resonators
arXiv:2205.05203 · doi:10.1364/OPTICA.463723
Abstract
Optical cavities have found widespread use in interfacing to quantum emitters. Concerns about backreflection and resulting loss, however, have largely prevented the placement of optics such as lenses or modulators within high-finesse cavities. In this work, we demonstrate a million-fold suppression of backreflections from lenses within a twisted optical cavity. We achieve this by quantitatively exploring backscatter in Fabry-Pérot resonators, separating the effect into three physical sectors: polarization, mode envelope and spatial mode profile. We describe the impact of each of these sectors, and demonstrate how to minimize backreflections within each. This culminates in measured effective reflectivities below the part-per-billion level for the fundamental mode. Additionally, we show that beams carrying orbital angular momentum experience up to times additional suppression, limited only by the density of states of other cavity modes. Applying these ideas to laser gyroscopes could strongly suppress lock-in, thereby improving sensitivity at low rotation rates.
arXiv comment9 pages, 5 figures
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