Resonant-mode analysis of single-mode face pumped lasers
Abstract
The theoretical investigations and experimental verifications of resonant modes of optically pumped solid host face-pumped lasers (FPL) are discussed. The conditions for a single transverse-mode operation for electrooptically Q-switched neodymium glass and YAG lasers are examined in both stable and stable/unstable resonator configurations. Resonant mode computations were made, based on a Gaussian quadrature and a complex non-Hermitian matrix program.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- April 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.16.001067
- Bibcode:
- 1977ApOpt..16.1067C
- Keywords:
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- Electro-Optics;
- Laser Modes;
- Laser Outputs;
- Optical Pumping;
- Optical Resonance;
- Eigenvalues;
- Fresnel Region;
- Glass;
- Kernel Functions;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Q Switched Lasers;
- Transmission Loss;
- Yag Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LASERS: NEODYMIUM;
- MODES;
- RESONATORS;
- Q-SWITCHING