STABILITY OF THE FREQUENCY OF SELF-MODULATION OSCILLATIONS IN A MONOLITHIC ND-YAG SOLID-STATE RING LASER

Authors
BOIKO DL GOLYAEV YD DMITRIEV VG KRAVTSOV NV
Citation
Dl. Boiko et al., STABILITY OF THE FREQUENCY OF SELF-MODULATION OSCILLATIONS IN A MONOLITHIC ND-YAG SOLID-STATE RING LASER, Quantum electronics, 27(7), 1997, pp. 635-638
Citations number
10
Journal title
Quantum electronics → ACNP
ISSN journal
10637818
Volume
27
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
635 - 638
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7818(1997)27:7<635:SOTFOS>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
An investigation was made of the cause of the instability of the self- modulation frequency omega(m) of a monolithic Nd:YAG ring laser. One o f the main reasons for this instability was a strong temperature depen dence of the effective coupling coefficients of counterpropagating wav es characterising extracavity components, A method for weakening such coupling was proposed and implemented experimentally, This method made it possible to reduce the instability of the self-modulation frequenc y by over two orders of magnitude.