Preventing and reversing vacuum-induced optical losses in high-finesse tantalum (V) oxide mirror coatings

High-finesse optical cavities placed under vacuum are foundational platforms in quantum information science with photons and atoms. We study the vacuum-induced degradation of high-finesse optical cavities with mirror coatings composed of SiO[subscript 2]-Ta[subscript 2]O[subscript 5] dielectric stac...

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Main Authors: Gangloff, Dorian, Shi, Molu, Wu, Tailin, Bylinskii, Alexei, Braverman, Boris, Nichols, Rosanna, Li, Junru, Aichholz, Kai, Cetina, Marko, Karpa, Leon, Gutierrez, Michael Steven, Jelenkovic, Branislav, Vuletic, Vladan, Chuang, Isaac L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Optical Society of America 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99933
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