Existence of two coupling constants in microchip lasers

Mehdi Alouini; Fabien Bretenaker; Marc Brunel; Albert Le Floch; Marc Vallet; Philippe Thony

doi:10.1364/OL.25.000896

Existence of two coupling constants in microchip lasers

Mehdi Alouini
, Fabien Bretenaker
, Marc Brunel
, Albert Le Floch
, Marc Vallet
, Philippe Thony

University of Rennes
LETI (CEA-Technologies Avancees)

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Abstract

We implemented two different experimental setups to probe directly the nonlinear coupling between modes in microchip lasers. We show that, remarkably, the results can be interpreted by use of Lamb's coupling constant. In an Er, Yb:glass microchip laser, we measured C₁₂ = 0.80 between longitudinal modes and C_xy = 0.95 between orthogonally linearly polarized eigenstates. The high values obtained give some physical insight into the single-frequency operation of such lasers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	896-898
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	25
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.25.000896
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2000
Externally published	Yes

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