Raman oscillation with intracavity second harmonic generation

Author

Koch, Karl ; Moore, Gerald T. ; Dearborn, Michael E.

Author_Institution

Laser Syst. Branch, USAF Philips Lab., Kirtland AFB, NM, USA

Volume

33

Issue

10

fYear

1997

fDate

10/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1743

Lastpage

1748

Abstract

We use a plane-wave analysis to examine a Raman oscillator containing an intracavity second harmonic interaction that frequency doubles the circulating first-order Stokes radiation. We find that there is an optimum ratio between the nonlinear coupling in the Raman medium and the nonlinear coupling in the frequency doubler. We also find that higher order Stokes radiation should be suppressed with the optimum choice of nonlinear coupling in the frequency doubler. We present numerical integration results that model the stimulated Raman scattering and second harmonic generation in three spatial dimensions. Quantum efficiencies as large as 48% are predicted from planewave theory and 43% are obtained from numerical integration of the equations containing transverse effects

Keywords

Raman lasers; integration; laser theory; optical harmonic generation; ring lasers; stimulated Raman scattering; 43 percent; 48 percent; Raman oscillation; Raman oscillator; circulating first-order Stokes radiation; frequency doubling; higher order Stokes radiation; intracavity second harmonic generation; nonlinear coupling; numerical integration; optimum ratio; plane-wave analysis; quantum efficiencies; second harmonic generation; spatial dimensions; stimulated Raman scattering; transverse effects; Couplings; Frequency conversion; Laser modes; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical mixing; Optical scattering; Oscillators; Raman scattering; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.631277

Filename

631277