Principle and applications of Faraday-Fabry-Perot cavity

Nan Di, Jianlin Zhao

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Abstract

A Faraday-Fabry-Perot (FFP) cavity, composed of an Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity and a piece of Faraday magneto-optical material, is presented. The principle of FFP cavity and its polarization modulation effect are described by use of optical matrix analysis. The result shows that the Faraday rotation is able to be magnified by more than two orders of magnitude in resonant FFP cavity, while different elliptically polarized lights are obtained in non-resonant cavity. Furthermore two novel applications, that is, optical isolator based on passive FFP cavity (FOI) and Faraday-Zeeman dual-frequency laser (FZDL) based on active FFP cavity whose eigen modes operate as circularly polarized lights and whose frequency difference can be adjusted continuously by magnetic field, are introduced. The principles, typical parameters and performance characteristics are analyzed in both applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOptoelectronic Devices and Integration III
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
EventOptoelectronic Devices and Integration III - Beijing, China
Duration: 18 Oct 201020 Oct 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7847
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceOptoelectronic Devices and Integration III
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period18/10/1020/10/10

Keywords

  • circularly polarized light
  • dual-frequency laser
  • Fabry-Perot cavity
  • Faraday effect
  • optical device
  • optical isolator

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