SELF-STABILIZATION OF A CONTINUOUS-WAVE MULTIMODE GREEN LASER DUE TO ANTIPHASE DYNAMICS

Authors
USTYUGOV VI ORLOV OA KHALEEV MM NOVIKOV GE VIKTOROV EA MANDEL P
Citation
Vi. Ustyugov et al., SELF-STABILIZATION OF A CONTINUOUS-WAVE MULTIMODE GREEN LASER DUE TO ANTIPHASE DYNAMICS, Applied physics letters, 71(2), 1997, pp. 154-156
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
71
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
154 - 156
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1997)71:2<154:SOACMG>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The stability of a diode pumped Nd:YAG laser with intracavity KTP in a n L-shaped cavity is studied. The mirror which connects the two cavity arms is a dielectric which also acts as a partial polarizer. This des ign provides a high level of stability for the total output power, des pite the instability of the separate modes: separate modes are chaotic with large amplitude noise while the total output displays reduced no ise below 1% rms. A model based on the Jones matrices is studied numer ically. It shows antiphase and clustering, in excellent qualitative ag reement with the experimental data. (C) 1997 American Institute of Phy sics.