Chapter Six: Fabry–Perot cavities made easy
Luigi A. Lugiato; Franco Prati Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università dell’Insubria, Como, Italy
Abstract
The theoretical investigations on the dynamics and the instabilities in nonlinear optical systems have considered almost exclusively ring cavities, because the field propagation is unidirectional, whereas in Fabry–Perot cavities there are two field envelopes propagating in opposite directions, which constitutes a much more complex context. In the recent years, we have introduced a traveling wave formalism for Fabry–Perot cavities, obtained by considering a cavity with length doubled with respect to the original Fabry–Perot cavity and appropriately defining the variables in ...
