• DocumentCode
    1109870
  • Title

    Waveguide laser resonators with a tilted mirror

  • Author

    Hill, Christopher A. ; Hall, Denis R.

  • Author_Institution
    Royal Signals and radar establishment, Malvern, england
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    7/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1078
  • Lastpage
    1087
  • Abstract
    We present a multimode theory of square-bore waveguide laser resonators with one well-aligned and one tilted plane mirror. Our theoretical results for mode content, resonator loss, and power output agree reasonably well with experimental results from an RF-excited CO2laser with a 376 \\times 1.5 \\times 1.5 mm Al/Al2O3waveguide. The mode propagation coefficients of this structure are discussed. We model a diffraction grating as a plane mirror with a wavelength-dependent tilt, and conclude that previous single-mode theory has underestimated the severity of the line-hopping constraint on tunable waveguide CO2laser performance.
  • Keywords
    Carbon dioxide lasers; Laser resonators; Laser tuning; Waveguide lasers; Constraint theory; Diffraction gratings; Laser modes; Laser theory; Mirrors; Optical propagation; Planar waveguides; Power lasers; Waveguide lasers; Waveguide theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1986.1073078
  • Filename
    1073078
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1109870