Anticorrelations in the intensity fluctuations of orthogonally polarized components of the output of cw amplified spontaneous emission
Abstract
The intensity fluctuations of orthogonal, linearly-polarized components of the cw amplified spontaneous emission output from one end of a 3.51 μm helix-xenon gas laser amplifier are found to be strongly anticorrelated when the amplifier is saturated. The anticorrelation appears to vanish at short discharge lengths as expected for a linear amplifier. Atomic memory effects are demonstrated by the crosscorrelation function which is up to three wider than the separated autocorrelation functions.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- September 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-4018(81)90069-9
- Bibcode:
- 1981OptCo..38..372A
- Keywords:
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- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Gas Lasers;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Laser Outputs;
- Polarized Electromagnetic Radiation;
- Atomic Excitations;
- Cross Correlation;
- Helium;
- Linear Polarization;
- Xenon;
- Lasers and Masers