title: Misalignment sensitivity of optical resonators.
abstract: The effect of mirror misalignment of spherical resonators is investigated experimentally and compared to first-order perturbation theory. An expression D is derived, which characterizes the misalignment sensitivity of any spherical resonator. It is proved experimentally that this misalignment sensitivity depends on the effective resonator length L and the gi parameters only.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hauck
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Kortz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Weber