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Oscillation regimes of a solid-state ring laser with active beat note stabilization : from a chaotic device to a ring laser gyroscope
We report experimental and theoretical study of a rotating diode-pumped
Nd-YAG ring laser with active beat note stabilization. Our experimental setup
is described in the usual Maxwell-Bloch formalism. We analytically derive a
stability condition and some frequency response characteristics for the
solid-state ring laser gyroscope, illustrating the important role of mode
coupling effects on the dynamics of such a device. Experimental data are
presented and compared with the theory on the basis of realistic laser
parameters, showing a very good agreement. Our results illustrate the duality
between the very rich non linear dynamics of the diode-pumped solid-state ring
laser (including chaotic behavior) and the possibility to obtain a very stable
beat note, resulting in a potentially new kind of rotation sensor
Injection locking properties of a microchip laser
An injected microchip laser is theoretically studied, with the use of two models: in
the first model, which is traditional, the field is represented by a single frequency
component in the slowly-varying envelope approximation. In the second model, referred
to as the Fabry-Perot model, two field components are considered which are respectively
centered around the frequency of an eigenmode of the injected laser and the frequency
of the injected field. Computation of locking ranges, bistability do mains are
performed and the results compared. They show not only an improved precision of the
second model but also a necessity to use it to describe some effects such as the
bistable domains in the limits of the locking domains