PREFERENTIAL OPERATION OF AN END-PUMPED ND-YAG LASER IN HIGH-ORDER LAGUERRE-GAUSS MODES

被引:34
作者
FLOOD, CJ
GIULIANI, G
VANDRIEL, HM
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
[2] Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Centre, Toronto, ON
[3] Università degli Studi, Dipartimento di Fisica, Rome
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10.1364/OL.15.000215
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A small Nd: YAG laser with plano-concave resonator end pumped by a dye laser is observed to possess single Laguerre–Gauss transverse modes as the lowest-loss modes. This anomalous behavior occurs when the transverse dimension of the gain spot is much smaller than the fundamental TEM00-mode spot size of the resonator; the Laguerre–Gauss transverse-mode order varies with resonator length. © 1990 Optical Society of America.
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