Pump modulated lasing pixels: a new approach for image generation

Author

Kornev, A.F. ; Kuchma, I.G. ; Pokrovskiy, V.P. ; Soms, L.N. ; Stupnikov, V.K.

Author_Institution

State Res. Inst. for Laser Phys., St. Petersburg, Russia

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

323

Abstract

The present paper describes an alternative approach to the image forming, which is in a spatial modulation of the gain in the active medium, by the spatial modulation of the density of pump. The problems for the super-Rayleigh resolution are discussed and a possibility of gray scale image generation was shown. The fragmentation of the cross section of the Fabry-Perot cavity helps to suppress smoothening of the image edges during large objects generation. A numerical model of pump modulated lasing pixels (PMLP) was developed, the results of calculation being in good agreement with experiments.

Keywords

image resolution; laser cavity resonators; numerical analysis; optical images; optical pumping; spatial light modulators; Fabry-Perot cavity; cross section fragmentation; gray scale image generation; image edge smoothening; large object generation; pump modulated lasing pixels; spatial modulation; super-Rayleigh resolution; Image generation; Laser modes; Laser theory; Physics; Pixel; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Spatial resolution; Surface emitting lasers; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7734-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312384

Filename

1312384