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Optica, Optics Express, 22(21), p. 26735, 2013

DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.026735

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Combined cavity ring-down and spectrophotometry for measuring reflectance of optical laser components

Journal article published in 2013 by Hongyu Zu, Bincheng Li, Yanling Han, Lifeng Gao
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

A combined cavity ring-down (CRD) and spectrophotometry technique is developed to measure with sufficiently high accuracy the reflectance of any practically fabricated optical laser component with reflectance ranging from below 0.01% to over 99.999%. In this combined technique, a CRD configuration is employed to measure reflectance higher than 99%, and a conventional spectrophotometric configuration, which is formed by simply removing the rear cavity mirror from the CRD configuration, is applied to measure reflectance below 99%. Uncertainties below 0.0001% for reflectance over 99.99% and below 0.3% for reflectance below 99% are experimentally achieved with CRD and spectrophotometry configurations, respectively, of one single experimental setup.