Noise suppression of Nd:YVO/sub 4/ solid-state lasers for telecommunication applications

This paper is intended to elaborate on the investigation and suppression of the relative intensity noise of a diode pumped Nd:YVO/sub 4/ microchip laser. In addition to noise suppression at the relaxation oscillations, noise analysis is also reported. For these investigations a very simple, rateequation-based model of the laser transfer function was used.