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Typical cavity ring-down (CRD) trace with visible polarization mode beating, recorded at NIST for an input polarization angle of ϕ = 45°. An associated birefringence splitting of Δνbeat = 110 ± 5 kHz is extracted from the fitted model (corresponding residuals shown at the bottom).