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Lasers

Transversely diode-pumped alkali metal vapour laser

A. I. Parkhomenko^a, A. M. Shalagin<sup>ba

a</sup> Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
^b Novosibirsk State University

Abstract: We have studied theoretically the operation of a transversely diode-pumped alkali metal vapour laser. For the case of high-intensity laser radiation, we have obtained an analytical solution to a complex system of differential equations describing the laser. This solution allows one to exhaustively determine all the energy characteristics of the laser and to find optimal parameters of the working medium and pump radiation (temperature, buffer gas pressure, and intensity and width of the pump spectrum).

Keywords: alkali metal vapour laser, diode pumping, collisions.

PACS: 42.55.Lt, 42.55.Xi

Received: 10.03.2015
Revised: 05.05.2015

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2015, 45:9, 797–806

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