Millimeter-long Fiber Fabry-Perot cavities
  We demonstrate fiber Fabry-Perot (FFP) cavities with concave mirrors that can be operated at cavity lengths as large as 1.5mm without significant deterioration of the finesse. This is achieved by using a laser dot machining technique to shape spherical mirrors with ultralow roughness and employing single-mode fibers with large mode area for good mode matching to the cavity. Additionally, in contrast to previous FFPs, these cavities can be used over an octave-spanning frequency range with adequate coatings. We also show directly that shape deviations caused by the fiber's index profile lead to a finesse decrease as observed in earlier attempts to build long FFP cavities, and show a way to overcome this problem. 
Konstantin Ott, Sebastien Garcia, Ralf Kohlhaas, Klemens Sch\"uppert,   Peter Rosenbusch, Romain Long and Jakob Reichel
physics.optics physics.atom-ph quant-ph