Construction and Testing of a Low-Finesse Fabry-Perot Interferometer For Use in Atomic Spectroscopy

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Permanent URL	http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2736
Title	Construction and Testing of a Low-Finesse Fabry-Perot Interferometer For Use in Atomic Spectroscopy
BYU Creator	Moody, Nathan C.
Keywords	Fabry-Perot Littman-Metcalf Littrow Fabry-Perot finesse confocal cavity
Description/Abstract	I built a low-finesse confocal cavity with aluminum mirrors for use in the imaging of ultra-cold calcium ion plasmas. The confocal cavity provides stability at large mirror separations, a condition necessary for achieving both low finesse and narrow peak widths. Additionally, the finesse in the case of coherent input is effectively doubled compared to multi-mode resonance. The cavity was tested using a GaN diode laser input at 397nm. The transmission obtained indicated that the finesse of the cavity was slightly lower than the prediction based on measurements of the mirror reflectivities and the assumption of incoherent input.
Date Original	8/1/2002
Language	English eng en
Publication Type	Theses
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
BYU College	College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
BYU Department	Physics and Astronomy
Copyright Status	(c) 2002
Copyright Use Information	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html

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