Title :
Mutual injection locking of two individual Nd:YVO4 lasers in a compound cavity
Author :
Wang, Qiang ; Yan, Li ; Ho, P.-T. ; Wood, Gary ; Dubinskiy, Mark ; Zandi, Bahram
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we demonstrate mutual injection locking of two individual Nd:YVO4 lasers through diffraction coupling in a compound cavity. The two laser beams are spatially coherent. Combing these coherent beams can lead to a beam with high power and small divergence.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser mode locking; light coherence; light diffraction; neodymium; solid lasers; vanadium compounds; yttrium compounds; Nd:YVO4 laser; YVO4:Nd; compound cavity; diffraction coupling; laser beams; mutual injection locking; spatial coherent; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser beams; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser theory; Lenses; Master-slave; Optimized production technology; Power lasers; Spatial coherence;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7888-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2003.1253078