Abstract

In recent years, Fabry-Perot cavities with dramatically reduced mode volumes have been developed, enabled by new mirror microfabrication techniques [1]. These small mode volumes can be used to greatly increase the coupling of light to matter [2]. However, such cavities have shown an increased frequency splitting of the polarization eigenmodes. This splitting must be controlled for a number of applications ranging from polarimetry to quantum information processing based on cavity quantum electrodynamics. We investigated the effect of the mirror geometry on this frequency splitting [3].

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