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Lasers

Frequency of self-modulation oscillations in a solid-state coupled-cavity ring laser

I. I. Zolotoverkh, E. G. Lariontsev

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics

Abstract: Self-modulation oscillations of the intensity of a solidstate coupled-cavity ring laser are theoretically investigated. The results obtained analytically show that external optical coupling allows the frequency of self-modulation oscillations to be varied in a wide range (from a few kilohertz to hundreds of megahertz). Using coupled cavities, it is possible to significantly weaken the influence of the coupling of counterpropagating waves through backscattering on the self-modulation frequency and to increase the scale factor that determines the dependence of the self-modulation frequency on the rotation velocity.

Keywords: solid-state ring laser, coupled cavities, self-modulation oscillations, laser gyroscope, scale factor.

Received: 07.12.2017
Revised: 05.02.2018

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2018, 48:6, 510–515

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