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A system for matching the spectrum of injected single-frequency radiation with the cavity eigenfrequencies of a pulsed laser

Lonshakov, E.A., Kvashnin, N.L., Bordzilovskiy, D.S., Struts, S.G., Tarasov, V.M., Maiyorov, A.P., Dmitriev, A.K.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Лоншаков Е.А., Квашнин Н.Л., Бордзиловский Д.С., Струц С.Г., Тарасов В.М., Майоров А.П., Дмитриев А.К. Система согласования спектра инжектируемого одночастотного излучения с собственными частотами резонатора импульсного лазера // Оптический журнал. 2013. Т. 80. № 7. С. 74–77.

Lonshakov E.A., Kvashnin N.L., Bordzilovskiy D.S., Struts S.G., Tarasov V.M., Maiyorov A.P., Dmitriev A.K. A system for matching the spectrum of injected single-frequency radiation with the cavity eigenfrequencies of a pulsed laser [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2013. V. 80. № 7. P. 74–77.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

E. A. Lonshakov, N. L. Kvashnin, D. S. Bordzilovsky, S. G. Struts, V. M. Tarasov, A. P. Mayorov, and A. K. Dmitriev, "A system for matching the spectrum of injected single-frequency radiation with the cavity eigenfrequencies of a pulsed laser," Journal of Optical Technology. 80(7), 463-465 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.80.000463

Abstract:

A method for automatically setting the cavity eigenfrequencies of a pulsed laser to the emission frequency of a continuous single-frequency master oscillator has been developed and investigated. The operating principle of the given system is explained, and the results of a study of how it affects the characteristics of the radiation of a pulsed laser are presented. The system described here can be used to stabilize the process of single-frequency lasing of a pulsed laser with the injection of an external signal and to reduce the jitter of the light pulses by a factor of 2 and the scatter of their amplitude by a factor of more than 3.

Keywords:

resonator tuning, single-frequency laser, laser with external signal, resonators matching

OCIS codes: 140.3570, 140.4780

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