Phase locking of holographic solid-state Nd-lasers via four-wave-mixing in saturable-gain media

Author

Basiev, Tasoltan T. ; Fedin, Alexander V. ; Gavrilov, Andrey V. ; Osiko, Vyacheslav V. ; Smetanin, S.N.

Author_Institution

Laser Mater. & Technol. Res. Center of GPI, Moscow, Russia

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

316

Abstract

In this paper, a parallel-coupling laser system based on two self-phase-conjugated Nd:YAG lasers with phase locking in addition active rod chamber is demonstrated. The phase, frequency and amplitude locking of the radiation of two self-adaptive lasers is realized by the degenerate four-wave mixing of intracavity beams in the dynamic holographic transmission gain gratings formed in the additional pumped laser rod. Lasing dynamics of the proposed system was studied theoretically and experimentally and a two-dimensional model of interaction of two single-mode beams with active medium was developed.

Keywords

holographic gratings; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; multiwave mixing; neodymium; optical phase conjugation; optical phase locked loops; optical pumping; optical saturation; solid lasers; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; four-wave-mixing; holographic solid-state Nd-lasers; holographic transmission gain gratings; intracavity beams; lasing dynamics; parallel-coupling laser system; phase locking; pumped laser rod; saturable-gain media; self-adaptive lasers; self-phase-conjugated Nd:YAG lasers; Four-wave mixing; Frequency; Gratings; Holography; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Pump lasers; Solid state circuits;

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.2003.1312377

Filename

1312377