Title :
Transverse mode locking
Author_Institution :
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
fDate :
6/1/1968 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The possibility of phase locking the transverse modes of a laser is considered. It is shown that if a transverse mode set having a Poisson intensity distribution can be phase locked, a scanning laser beam can be produced.
Keywords :
Indium tin oxide; Laser beams; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Mirrors; Oscillators; Polynomials; Quantum mechanics; Resonant frequency; Wave functions;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1968.1075357