N. V. Kratsov, N. N. Kravtsov, A. A. Makarov, V. V. Firsov, “Self-heterodyning in solid-state ring lasers”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 1996, Volume 23, Number 10,Pages <nobr>885

Self-heterodyning in solid-state ring lasers

N. V. Kratsov^a, N. N. Kravtsov^b, A. A. Makarov^a, V. V. Firsov^a

^a Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
^b M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics

Abstract: Self-heterodyning, resulting from the influence of a weak Doppler-shifted signal on the dynamics of a solid-state ring laser operating in a self-modulation regime of the first kind, was discovered and investigated. It was found that self-heterodyning can increase the efficiency of intracavity coherent detection of weak signals.

PACS: 42.55.Rz, 42.55.Xi, 42.62.Eh

Received: 01.01.1996