Lorentz invariance of optical cavity resonance
ID: lorentz-invariance-of-optical-cavity-resonance
A Lorentz transformation of a resonant optical cavity transforms both the electromagnetic field and the mirror worldlines. Boundary conditions and event-by-event phase matching remain satisfied. For a longitudinal boost, a cavity of rest length has length and unequal forward/backward frequencies . The coordinate round-trip time is , while the phase rate on a moving mirror is , so the round-trip phase is still . A stationary-mirror resonance formula with only length contraction inserted describes the wrong boundary-value problem.
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