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Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2020 Volume 50, Number 12, Pages 1167–1172 (Mi qe17360)

Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Production of two-colour radiation with polarisations of components rotating in opposite directions

V. M. Kotov

Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Fryazino Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: A method is proposed for the production of two-colour radiation with monochromatic components, the polarisation vectors of which rotate in opposite directions, and the rotation speed is controlled by the sound frequency. The method is based on acoustooptic (AO) interaction upon double passage of two-colour radiation through an AO cell made of a gyrotropic crystal; the method efficiency is demonstrated by the example of radiation from an Ar laser generating at wavelengths of 0.488 and 0.514 μm and an AO cell made of TeO2, operating at a sound frequency of 60 MHz.

Keywords: two-colour optical radiation, acousto-optic diffraction, Bragg regime, rotation of the polarisation vector.

Received: 06.08.2020


 English version:
Quantum Electronics, 2020, 50:12, 1167–1172

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