Study of amplitude noise in a continuous-wave intracavity frequency-doubled Raman laser

Author

Lin, Jipeng ; Pask, Helen M. ; Lee, Andrew J. ; Spence, David J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 28 2011-Sept. 1 2011

Firstpage

303

Lastpage

305

Abstract

We study the temporal amplitude stability of a continuous-wave (CW) intracavity frequency-doubled self-Raman Nd:GdVO₄ laser (yellow laser), and compare to a CW intracavity frequency-doubled Nd:GdVO₄ laser (green laser). Both experimental and theoretical results indicate that at high pump powers the yellow laser shows strong amplitude fluctuations (peak to peak >;20%) similar to that in the simple green laser. However, for lower powers there is a regime where the yellow laser exhibits much lower (peak to peak <;1%) amplitude noise.

Keywords

Raman lasers; gadolinium compounds; laser cavity resonators; laser noise; laser stability; neodymium; optical harmonic generation; optical pumping; solid lasers; GdVO₄:Nd; amplitude fluctuations; amplitude noise; continuous-wave intracavity frequency-doubled self-Raman laser; pump powers; temporal amplitude stability; yellow laser power; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser stability; Laser theory; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics Conference & Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/IQEC/PACIFIC RIM), 2011

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1939-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6193679

Filename

6193679