The arrays of phase-locked lasers

Author

Glova, A.F. ; Lebedev, E.A. ; Lysikov, A.Yu. ; Shchetnikov, S.B.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Innovation & Fusion Res., State Res. Center of the Russian Fed., Troitsk, Moscow, Russia

fYear

2000

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2000

Abstract

Summary form only. Radiation parameters of 2D-arrays of waveguide CO/sub 2/-lasers synchronised by in-cavity spatial filter method are investigated. The dependencies for phase-locking efficiency and for axial brightness of far-field array radiation rationed to maximal value versus of number N of single lasers in an array, filter parameters and conditions of excitation are received. For all N phase-locking efficiency decreases if filter transparency also decreases because of increasing influences of additional filter introduced cavity radiation losses.

Keywords

carbon compounds; gas lasers; laser arrays; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical losses; 2D laser arrays; CO/sub 2/; axial brightness; far-field array radiation; filter parameters; filter transparency; in cavity radiation losses; maximal value; phase-locked laser arrays; phase-locking efficiency; radiation parameters; waveguide CO/sub 2/-lasers; Brightness; Filters; Frequency; Laser tuning; Optical arrays; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Phased arrays; Ring lasers; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6319-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909833

Filename

909833