Longitudinal mode structure in a non-planar ring resonator

 The structure of longitudinal modes of a passively Q-switched, non-planar unidirectional ring-resonator,with Nd:YAG active medium is described in this article. Two different techniques are used to study the longitudinal mode structure of the laser resonator. At first, the fast-fourier transform technique is applied for analyzing the mode beating of the optical fields by intensity frequency structure of the laser pulses to determine the number of longitudinal modes. Then, an analyzer etalon is used to observe Fabry-Perot fringes to compute the numbers of the resonator longitudinal modes. The results of two techniques are in good agreement with each other. Under the proper conditions, a reliable single longitudinal mode of the non-planar ring-resonator can be achieved with a good spatial mode profile that originates from the unidirectional travelling optical field propagation in the resonator having a very low sensitivity of the non-planar ring resonator to the optical elements misalignment

Spectral behavior of phase conjugated mirror in a two-pass optical amplifier

In this paper, the spectral behavior of a two-cell phase conjugated mirror (PCM)with a two-pass Nd:YAG amplifier has been analyzed experimentally and theoretically. For this purpose, amplifier input intensity for the three different states of laser oscillator with one, two and three longitudinal modes have been investigated. The numerical model is based on 2-dimension equations of stokes back-scattered intensity and acoustic wave, for two-cell generator-amplifier phase conjugated mirror with proper boundary conditions and simultaneously solving the rate equations of Nd:YAG optical amplifier. Results of the Fourier analysis of the amplified intensity show considerable differences between Fourier amplitudes of the amplifier equipped with PCM and a two-pass amplifier with a conventional turning mirror under the same output energy. The amplifier with PCM has a completely filtered and different spectral behavior with clearly reduction of the beating between Fourier components of the input optical field