Calculating the Fine Structure of a Fabry-Perot Resonator using Spheroidal Wave Functions

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2010-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/1003.4168v1

Optics Express 18, 9580 (2010)

Physics

Optics

Scientific paper

10.1364/OE.18.009580

A new set of vector solutions to Maxwell's equations based on solutions to the wave equation in spheroidal coordinates allows laser beams to be described beyond the paraxial approximation. Using these solutions allows us to calculate the complete first-order corrections in the short-wavelength limit to eigenmodes and eigenfrequencies in a Fabry-Perot resonator with perfectly conducting mirrors. Experimentally relevant effects are predicted. Modes which are degenerate according to the paraxial approximation are split according to their total angular momentum. This includes a splitting due to coupling between orbital angular momentum and spin angular momentum.

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