V. P. Bykov, A. M. Prokhorov, V. V. Savranskii, “Characteristics of mode locking in a semiconfocal cavity”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 1997, Volume 24, Number 9,Pages <nobr>837

Control of laser radiation parameters

Characteristics of mode locking in a semiconfocal cavity

V. P. Bykov^a, A. M. Prokhorov^a, V. V. Savranskii^b

^a Natural Sciences Center at General Physics Institute of RAS, Moscow
^b Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: It is shown that simultaneous locking of longitudinal and transverse modes is possible in a semiconfocal cavity. A laser with a high repetition rate (10—100 MHz) then emits alternately strongly and weakly diverging pulses. A laser operating in this way may be useful in various sounding and ranging applications. A laser with such locking is a wide-aperture device with a large volume of the active medium.

PACS: 42.60.Da, 42.60.Fc

Received: 11.04.1997