DocumentCode
1108070
Title
Laser mirror by degenerate four-wave mixing in a saturable amplifier
Author
Ouhayoun, Michel ; Guern, Yves
Author_Institution
Société Anonyme de Télécommunications, Paris, France
Volume
22
Issue
11
fYear
1986
fDate
11/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
2150
Lastpage
2153
Abstract
A phase conjugate mirror by degenerate four-wave mixing in a saturable gain medium has been successfully operated in a pulsed laser cavity. This mirror works with low-intensity pump beams when they are resonant with the nonlinear medium. The pump beams can thus be delivered by a continuous-wave, frequency stable laser of low power. In such a device, the pulsed laser emission displays automatic frequency locking to the pump waves without cavity length stabilization.
Keywords
Laser stability; Optical mixers; Optical resonance; Pulsed lasers; Four-wave mixing; Frequency; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser stability; Mirrors; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Resonance;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9197
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JQE.1986.1072920
Filename
1072920
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