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Phys. Rev. A 68, 023807 (2003) [9 pages]

Capturing a light pulse in a short high-finesse cavity

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B. P. J. Bret*, T. L. Sonnemans†, and T. W. Hijmans‡
Van der Waals–Zeeman Instituut, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Received 7 August 2002; published 20 August 2003

We describe a method to couple a light pulse into a cavity with arbitrarily high finesse, with an efficiency that in theory can approach 100% even if the pulse duration is much longer than the round-trip time of the cavity. The spectrum of the pulse is compressed into a single narrow mode in an adiabatic and reversible way. The method uses an input coupler with a variable effective reflectivity which is adapted to match the known temporal shape of the pulse. In addition to a theoretical description of the method, we demonstrate the principle experimentally.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.023807
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.023807
PACS:
42.60.Da, 07.60.Ly, 42.79.Nv

*Present address: Universiteit Twente, Postbus 217, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands.

†Present address: Joh. Enschedé, Postbus 464, 2000 AL Haarlem, The Netherlands.

‡Electronic address: hijmans@science.uva.nl

 
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