Intensity tuning characteristics of double-mode He--Ne laser with optical feedback
Mao Wei(毛威)†, Zhang Shu-Lian(张书练), and Fei Li-Gang(费立刚)
The State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084, China
Abstract This paper investigates the intensity tuning characteristics of a double longitudinal modes He--Ne laser subjected to optical feedback. The intensity undulations of the total light and the two modes are observed for different external cavity length. Two modulations of the internal cavity length are performed. One is only for the internal cavity length being modulated and the other is for both the internal and the external cavity length being modulated. The undulation frequency of the total light is found to be determined by the ratio of external cavity length to internal cavity length in both modulations. When the external cavity length is integral times of the internal cavity length, the fringe frequency of the total light could be seven or even more times of that in conventional optical feedback. A simple theoretical analysis is presented, which is in good agreement with the experimental results. The potential use of the experimental results is also discussed.
Received: 17 October 2005
Revised: 14 February 2006
Accepted manuscript online:
PACS:
52.38.Hb
(Self-focussing, channeling, and filamentation in plasmas)
(Ordinary and partial differential equations; boundary value problems)
Fund: Project supported by the
Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant
No 60438010).
Cite this article:
Mao Wei(毛威), Zhang Shu-Lian(张书练), and Fei Li-Gang(费立刚) Intensity tuning characteristics of double-mode He--Ne laser with optical feedback 2006 Chinese Physics 15 2036
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