张利剑-高等光学（一）week9.pdfVIP

张利剑 lijian.zhang@nju.edu.cn 025 Week 9 Advanced Optics I Lasers 1 Previously: Optical resonators Optical counterpart of electronic resonant circuit. Con?nes and stores light at the resonant frequency. An optical transmission system with feedback. ? Modal volume V: volume occupied by the con?ned optical mode ? Quality factor Q: proportional to the storage time in units of optical period Spatial and temporal con?nement of light in the resonator