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  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1984),
  • paper MEE6

Light-Pressure Stabilization of Optical Resonators.

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Abstract

In a recent paper,1 we reported radiation-pressure-induced optical bistability. The core of the experimental setup consisted of a Fabry-perot interferometer where one of the mirrors was very light (60 mg) and allowed to move as a pendulum. For constant, high- enough incident intensity, we also observed that the response of the system at the pendulum frequency was strongly suppressed and overall mirror motion was reduced. This can be understood simply in terms of the potential resulting from the combined effects of radiation pressure and the gravitational restoring force. Thus, radiation pressure allows us to control the position of a mirror to a high precision.

© 1984 Optical Society of America

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