Title :
Performance characteristics of a passive injection locked power build-up cavity for multi-gas detection
Author :
Ohara, S. ; Oketani, T. ; Endo, M. ; Yamaguchi, Satarou ; Nanri, K. ; Fujioka, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Tokai Univ., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
A power build-up cavity (PBC) system is very convenient and reasonable technique to achieve very high intracavity optical power. It is studied for laser gas sensor applications. This paper describes the stability of the PBC.
Keywords :
gas sensors; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; measurement by laser beam; semiconductor lasers; spectrochemical analysis; gas sensors; laser gas sensor; low power laser diode; multi-gas detection; passive injection locked power build-up cavity; spectrochemical analysis; stability; very high intracavity optical power; Diode lasers; Gas lasers; Laser beams; Laser stability; Mirrors; Optical coupling; Optical resonators; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chiba, Japan
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6738-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.970841