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Dataset supporting an article "Retroreflective surface optimisation for optical cavities with custom mirror profiles"

Dataset supporting an article "Retroreflective surface optimisation for optical cavities with custom mirror profiles"
Dataset supporting an article "Retroreflective surface optimisation for optical cavities with custom mirror profiles"
Dataset for article "Retroreflective surface optimisation for optical cavities with custom mirror profiles" The article has been accepted for publication in Physical Review A The article has abstract: "Coupling an emitter to a Fabry-Pérot optical cavity can provide a coherent and strong light-matter interface whose performance in a variety of applications depends critically on the emitter-photon coupling strength. Altering the typically spherical profiles of the cavity mirrors can improve this coupling strength, but directly optimising the mirror shape is numerically challenging as the multidimensional parameter space features many local optima. Here, we develop a two-step method to optimise mirror surface profiles while avoiding these issues. First, we optimise the target cavity eigenmode for the chosen application directly, and second, we construct the mirror surfaces to retroreflect this optimised target mode at both ends of the cavity. We apply our procedure to different emitter-cavity coupling scenarios. We show that mirror shaping can increase the cooperativity of coupling to a central emitter by a factor of approximately 3 across a wide range of geometries, and that, for coupling two or more emitters to a single cavity mode, the improvement factors can far exceed an order of magnitude."
University of Southampton
Hughes, William James
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Horak, Peter
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Hughes, William James
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Horak, Peter
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Hughes, William James and Horak, Peter (2026) Dataset supporting an article "Retroreflective surface optimisation for optical cavities with custom mirror profiles". University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D3808 [Dataset]

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Dataset for article "Retroreflective surface optimisation for optical cavities with custom mirror profiles" The article has been accepted for publication in Physical Review A The article has abstract: "Coupling an emitter to a Fabry-Pérot optical cavity can provide a coherent and strong light-matter interface whose performance in a variety of applications depends critically on the emitter-photon coupling strength. Altering the typically spherical profiles of the cavity mirrors can improve this coupling strength, but directly optimising the mirror shape is numerically challenging as the multidimensional parameter space features many local optima. Here, we develop a two-step method to optimise mirror surface profiles while avoiding these issues. First, we optimise the target cavity eigenmode for the chosen application directly, and second, we construct the mirror surfaces to retroreflect this optimised target mode at both ends of the cavity. We apply our procedure to different emitter-cavity coupling scenarios. We show that mirror shaping can increase the cooperativity of coupling to a central emitter by a factor of approximately 3 across a wide range of geometries, and that, for coupling two or more emitters to a single cavity mode, the improvement factors can far exceed an order of magnitude."

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Published date: 2026

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Local EPrints ID: 508350
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/508350
PURE UUID: ad98e63f-546d-4e91-9f56-67049000b999
ORCID for William James Hughes: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7254-3464
ORCID for Peter Horak: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8710-8764

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Date deposited: 19 Jan 2026 17:42
Last modified: 20 Jan 2026 03:08

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Creator: William James Hughes ORCID iD
Creator: Peter Horak ORCID iD

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