Intracavity doubling of CW diode-pumped Nd:YAG lasers with KTP

Author

Anthon, D.W. ; Sipes, D.L. ; Pier, T.J. ; Ressl, M.R.

Author_Institution

Amoco Laser Co., Naperville, IL, USA

Volume

28

Issue

4

fYear

1992

fDate

4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1148

Lastpage

1157

Abstract

Intracavity-doubled lasers exhibit amplitude fluctuations driven by a combination of two nonlinearities: sum generation and spatial hole burning. Optimizing the cavity polarizations to minimize sum generation does not consistently eliminate the oscillations. Elimination of spatial hole burning prevents oscillations over a much larger range of operating conditions. The system is still bistable however, and can suffer abrupt changes in power due to mode hops. This can be eliminated with an etalon or other wavelength selective element

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; optical harmonic generation; optical hole burning; potassium compounds; CW diode-pumped Nd:YAG lasers; KTiOPO₄; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; amplitude fluctuations; cavity polarizations; etalon; frequency doubling; intracavity doubling; laser modes; laser tuning; light polarisation; mode hops; optically bistable systems; oscillations; spatial hole burning; sum generation; wavelength selective element; Chaos; Couplings; Crystalline materials; Diodes; Fluctuations; Laser modes; Laser stability; Neodymium; Optical materials; Solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.135240

Filename

135240