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Lasers

Dynamics of injection locking in a solid-state laser with intracavity second-harmonic generation

I. I. Zolotoverkh, E. G. Lariontsev

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics

Abstract: The dynamics of oscillation in a solid-state laser with intracavity second-harmonic generation under the influence of an external signal at the second-harmonic frequency injected into its cavity in the presence of feedback at the double frequency is theoretically studied. Boundaries of the regions of injection locking for three stationary laser states differing in the nonlinear phase incursion caused by radiation conversion into the second harmonic are found. Relaxation oscillations in the stationary state of injection locking are studied. It is shown that the second relaxation frequency, which is related to phase perturbations of the second harmonic and perturbations of the phase difference of waves in a nonlinear crystal, is excited in a single-mode solid-state laser in addition to the fundamental frequency of relaxation oscillations. Conditions are found under which relaxation oscillations at the second relaxation frequency are excited.

PACS: 42.65.Sf, 42.65.Ky

Received: 16.05.2000

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2000, 30:9, 787–790

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