Title :
Self-injection locking of a self-adaptive loop resonator
Author :
Richard, S. ; Brignon, A.
Author_Institution :
Thales Res. & Technol., Palaiseau
Abstract :
A new scheme to lock the frequency of the self-adaptive loop resonator (SALR) on the frequency of a reference low power cw laser with no piezo-mirror to control the cavity length and no electronic feedback loop control is reported. The SALR operates at repitition rates as high as as 100 Hz, delivers more than 300 mJ in nanosecond pulses and has a very good beam quality. Injection seeding of this laser have also been successfully implemented to lock its frequency to the seed frequency.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; beam quality; cavity length; electronic feedback loop control; injection seeding; nanosecond pulses; piezomirror; reference low power cw laser; repitition rates; seed frequency; self-adaptive loop resonator; self-injection locking; Frequency; Laser beams; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Power lasers; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386061
