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8 February 2012 Tuning the sensitivity of an optical cavity with slow and fast light
David D. Smith, Krishna Myneni, H. Chang, A. Toftul, C. Schambeau, J. A. Odutola, J. C. Diels
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Proceedings Volume 8273, Advances in Slow and Fast Light V; 82730T (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.914724
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
We have measured mode pushing by the dispersion of a rubidium vapor in a Fabry-Perot cavity and have shown that the scale factor and sensitivity of a passive cavity can be strongly enhanced by the presence of such an anomalous dispersion medium. The enhancement is the result of the atom-cavity coupling, which provides a positive feedback to the cavity response. The cavity sensitivity can also be controlled and tuned through a pole by a second, optical pumping, beam applied transverse to the cavity. Alternatively, the sensitivity can be controlled by the introduction of a second counter-propagating input beam that interferes with the first beam, coherently increasing the cavity absorptance. We show that the pole in the sensitivity occurs when the sum of the effective group index and an additional cavity delay factor that accounts for mode reshaping goes to zero, and is an example of an exceptional point, commonly associated with coupled non- Hermitian Hamiltonian systems. Additionally we show that a normal dispersion feature can decrease the cavity scale factor and can be generated through velocity selective optical pumping.
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David D. Smith, Krishna Myneni, H. Chang, A. Toftul, C. Schambeau, J. A. Odutola, and J. C. Diels "Tuning the sensitivity of an optical cavity with slow and fast light", Proc. SPIE 8273, Advances in Slow and Fast Light V, 82730T (8 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.914724
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KEYWORDS
Absorption

Fabry–Perot interferometers

Doppler effect

Laser beam diagnostics

Optical pumping

Optical resonators

Resonance enhancement

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