SUM AND DIFFERENCE PHASE NOISE IN A LASER WITH A POLARIZATION-ISOTROPIC RESONATOR

Authors
SCHRAMA CA VANEIJKELENBORG MA WOERDMAN JP
Citation
Ca. Schrama et al., SUM AND DIFFERENCE PHASE NOISE IN A LASER WITH A POLARIZATION-ISOTROPIC RESONATOR, Optics communications, 132(5-6), 1996, pp. 557-564
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
132
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
557 - 564
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1996)132:5-6<557:SADPNI>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We consider the diffusion rate of the sum and the difference phases of the two circularly polarized modes in a laser operating on a J = 1 -- > J = 0 transition in a polarization-isotropic resonator. It is shown that these diffusion rates have different characteristics; while the d iffusion rate of the sum phase follows the generalized Schawlow-Townes equation, the diffusion rate of the difference phase displays singula r behaviour.