Design and characterization of complementary Gaussian reflectivity mirrors

Pierre Lavigne; Nathalie McCarthy; Jean-Guy Demers

doi:10.1364/OAM.1985.WJ29

Annual Meeting Optical Society of America
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1985),
paper WJ29
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OAM.1985.WJ29

Design and characterization of complementary Gaussian reflectivity mirrors

Pierre Lavigne, Nathalie McCarthy, and Jean-Guy Demers

OSA Annual Meeting 1985

Washington, D.C. United States
14–18 October 1985
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Abstract

Reflectors with a Gaussian reflectivity profile can be used to reduce the detrimental effects of edge diffraction in unstable optical resonators. Efficient energy extraction can then be obtained only if the energy which is not reflected by the mirror is recovered as useful output.

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