Cavity-enhanced polarization rotation measurements for low-disturbance probing of atoms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13302v3
• Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:36:24 GMT
• Title: Cavity-enhanced polarization rotation measurements for low-disturbance probing of atoms
• Authors: Chiara Mazzinghi, Daniel Benedicto Orenes, Pau Gomez, Vito G. Lucivero, Enes Aybar, Stuti Gugnani and Morgan W. Mitchell
• Abstract summary: cavity-enhanced polarization-rotation measurement is a means to detect magnetic effects in transparent media. We compute the effective polarization rotation effect in a Fabry-Perot cavity containing a magnetic medium, including losses due to enclosure windows or other sources.
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• Abstract: We propose and demonstrate cavity-enhanced polarization-rotation measurement as a means to detect magnetic effects in transparent media with greater sensitivity at equal optical disturbance to the medium. Using the Jones calculus, we compute the effective polarization rotation effect in a Fabry-Perot cavity containing a magnetic medium, including losses due to enclosure windows or other sources. The results show that when measuring polarization rotation, collecting the transmitted light has advantages in simplicity and linearity relative to collecting the reflected light. We demonstrate the technique by measuring Faraday rotation in a $^{87}$Rb atomic ensemble in the single-pass and cavity-enhanced geometries, and observe enhancement in good agreement with the theoretical predictions. We also demonstrate shot-noise-limited operation of the enhanced rotation scheme in the small-angle regime.

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