IMPROVEMENT OF THE PULSE AND SPECTRUM CHARACTERISTICS OF A MODE-LOCKED ARGON-LASER WITH A PHASE-CONJUGATING EXTERNAL-CAVITY

Authors
GAY D MCCARTHY N
Citation
D. Gay et N. Mccarthy, IMPROVEMENT OF THE PULSE AND SPECTRUM CHARACTERISTICS OF A MODE-LOCKED ARGON-LASER WITH A PHASE-CONJUGATING EXTERNAL-CAVITY, Optics communications, 137(1-3), 1997, pp. 83-88
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
137
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
83 - 88
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1997)137:1-3<83:IOTPAS>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We have investigated the effects of a small feedback from a phase-conj ugate mirror on the properties of a mode-locked argon ion laser. These properties are the noise in the low frequency range (from 0 to 20 GHz ), the width and the shape of the pulse and the optical spectrum. Depe nding on the laser cavity detuning with respect to the mode-locker per iod, an external cavity shorter than the laser cavity can control the pulse shape, the temporal fluctuations, the intensity noise in a wide range of frequencies (from kHz to GHz).