optical resonator

American  

noun

plural

optical resonators

1. a component of a laser using two or more mirrors to reflect and amplify light.

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optical resonator Scientific  

1. A part of a laser, consisting of two mirrors, one highly reflective and one partly reflective, placed on either side of a laser pump. Amplified light bounces back and forth between the mirrors, enhancing stimulated emission within the pump, eventually being emitted through the partly reflective mirror.

2. See more at laser

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Example Sentences

Figure 1 | Increasing the quality factor of an optical resonator.

From Nature • Oct. 22, 2019

In photonics, a light wave that is trapped by an optical resonator can be converted to a BIC under certain conditions3 — a discovery that was made only in 2008.

From Nature • Oct. 22, 2019

The main characteristic of an optical resonator is the quality factor — the ratio of the time over which the device can trap light to the period of the wave’s oscillation.

From Nature • Oct. 22, 2019

It can also be used to tune an optical resonator into the ‘supercavity’ regime, in which emission of light from the resonator is restrained4.

From Nature • Oct. 22, 2019

Jin et al.1 report simulations of and experiments on a light-trapping device known as an optical resonator.

From Nature • Oct. 22, 2019