Single-frequency Nd:YAG ring lasers with corner cube prism

Keying Wu; Suhui Yang; Changming Zhao; Guanghui Wei

doi:10.1117/12.382781

Single-frequency Nd:YAG ring lasers with 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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Kane and Byer reported the first monolithic non-planar miniature ring lasers in 1985. An intrinsic optical diode enforces unidirectional and hence single-frequency oscillation of this device. It has the advantages of compactness, reliability and high efficiency. We put forward another form of the non-planar ring lasers, in which the corner cube prism is the key element and the Nd:YAG crystal is used as a Porro prism to enclose the ring resonator. The phase shift due to the total internal reflections of the three differently orientated reflection planes of the corner cube prism, Faraday rotation in the Nd:YAG crystal placed in a magnetic field and the different output coupling in S and P polarization form an optical diode and enforce the single-frequency generating. A round trip analysis of the polarization properties of the resonator is made by the evaluation of Jones matrix. The results of our initial experiment are given in the paper.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	323-325
Number of pages	3
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	3929
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382781
Publication status	Published - 2000
Event	Solid State Lasers IX - San Jose, CA, USA Duration: 25 Jan 2000 → 26 Jan 2000

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