Non-planar ring laser with the corner cube prism

Keying Wu; Suhui Yang; Changming Zhao; Guanghui Wei

doi:10.1117/12.401756

Non-planar ring laser with the corner cube prism

Keying Wu^*, Suhui Yang, Changming Zhao, Guanghui Wei

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School of Optics and Photonics

Beijing Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Kane and Byer reported the first monolithic non-planar miniature ring laser in 1985. An intrinsic optical diode enforces unidirectional and hence single-frequency oscillation of this device. We put forward another kind of the non-planar ring lasers, in which the corner cube prism is the key element. The non-planar travelling ray in the corner cube, Faraday rotation in the Nd:YAG crystal placed in a magnetic field and the different output coupling in S and P polarization can yield the single-frequency laser output in theory. The distorted Porro prism made by Nd:YAG crystal plays the role of the laser medium and the laser output coupler is realized by one of the two roof surfaces. The whole system can be made as a quasi-monolithic laser by optical bonding technology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8-10
Number of pages	3
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	4223
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.401756
Publication status	Published - 2000
Event	Instruments for Optics and Optoelectronic Inspection and Control - Beijing, China Duration: 8 Nov 2000 → 10 Nov 2000

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