• Opto-Electronic Engineering
  • Vol. 36, Issue 10, 60 (2009)
ZHAO Tong-kai1, QU Zhe-chao2, and HAN Yan-ling2
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    DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1003-501x.2009.10.012 Cite this Article
    ZHAO Tong-kai, QU Zhe-chao, HAN Yan-ling. Influence of Self-mixing Effect of a Diode Laser on Continuous-wave Cavity Ring-down Technique[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2009, 36(10): 60 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    By employing a continuous-wave broadband diode laser, a Self-mixing Cavity Ring-down (SM-CRD) technique is investigated for accurate reflectivity measurement of optical mirrors at 1064nm. The self-mixing effect is induced from the optical feedback, directly reflected from the Ring-down Cavity (RDC), is re-injected into the oscillator cavity of the diode laser. The influence of the self-mixing effect on both output power and spectrum of the diode laser is presented. The coupling efficiency of the laser power into the RDC is greatly enhanced by the self-mixing effect. In the SM-CRD experimental setup, the high reflectivity of the cavity mirrors is measured to be 99.914% and the measurement accuracy is at the 10-5 level. The experimental results demonstrate that the SM-CRD technique is a very simple, inexpensive, precise and stable for high reflectivity measurement.
    ZHAO Tong-kai, QU Zhe-chao, HAN Yan-ling. Influence of Self-mixing Effect of a Diode Laser on Continuous-wave Cavity Ring-down Technique[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2009, 36(10): 60
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