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Using Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonators for Refractometry

TBMG-10361

05/01/2010

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A method of determining the refractive and absorptive properties of optically transparent materials involves a combination of theoretical and experimental analysis of electromagnetic responses of whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) resonator disks made of those materials. The method was conceived especially for use in studying transparent photorefractive materials, for which purpose this method affords unprecedented levels of sensitivity and accuracy. The method is expected to be particularly useful for measuring temporally varying refractive and absorptive properties of photorefractive materials at infrared wavelengths. Still more particularly, the method is expected to be useful for measuring drifts in these properties that are so slow that, heretofore, the properties were assumed to be constant.

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"Using Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonators for Refractometry," Mobility Engineering, May 1, 2010.
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May 1, 2010
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TBMG-10361
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English