Flexible degenerate cavity with ellipsoidal mirrors

Opt Lett. 2019 Nov 1;44(21):5254-5257. doi: 10.1364/OL.44.005254.

Abstract

Here we present a design of a traveling-wave optical cavity containing four identical ellipsoidal mirrors arranged in a square. The cavity proves to support more than 21 Laguerre-Gaussian modes simultaneously. There is a polarization splitting in the cavity that can be used for polarization filtering with a high isolation level.