Optics Homework 19: Due Thurs 3/20/08
Dr. Colton, Winter 2008
20 total points
1. P&W P9.7. Additionally: find the relationship you need between L and R in order to get a
stable cavity.
2. P&W P9.12. Your answers will be in terms of l. Hint: Feel free to use a program like
Mathematica to do the grunt work of solving the four simultaneous equations, if you don’t
want to go through the algebra involved with solving them yourself.
3. (8 pts) P&W L9.14
4. P&W P9.15