• DocumentCode
    1143953
  • Title

    Coupling losses in hollow waveguide laser resonators

  • Author

    Abrams, Richard L.

  • Author_Institution
    Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA, USA
  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1972
  • fDate
    11/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    838
  • Lastpage
    843
  • Abstract
    Hollow waveguide gas lasers of the type described by Smith have some inherent loss in coupling radiation from the guide into free space and back into the guide. This paper calculates that loss for the EH11lowest order waveguide mode as a function of mirror position and mirror radius. It is shown that some mirror positions and radii are optimum, in that they provide low coupling loss and are relatively insensitive to mirror position.
  • Keywords
    Filters; Gas lasers; Hollow waveguides; Laser modes; Laser theory; Mirrors; Optical coupling; Optical propagation; Polarization; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1972.1076875
  • Filename
    1076875
    • Link To Document
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