Transverse Optical Mode Patterns for an RF Excited Ar-He-Xe Laser

Blok, Frans J. and Elkin, Nikolay N. and Kochetov, Igor V. and Napartovich, Anatoly P. and Peters, Peter J.M. and Starostine, Sergei A. and Troshchieva, Vera N. and Udalov, Yuri B. and Witteman, W.J. (1999) Transverse Optical Mode Patterns for an RF Excited Ar-He-Xe Laser. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 35 (12). pp. 1786-1798. ISSN 0018-9197

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Abstract:	Transverse optical modes for an RF excited Ar-He-Xe laser are studied both experimentally and theoretically. A diffraction model for a waveguide with a nonsaturable gain and refractive index gradients placed between two plane mirrors is formulated. The effects of gain and diffraction index gradients and of diffraction in free space are evaluated for typical experimental conditions. A direct comparison between theoretical mode patterns and experimentally measured ones at distances of 17 and 114 cm from the output mirror demonstrated a satisfactory agreement for various laser wavelengths and gas mixture compositions
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	©1999 IEEE
Research Group:	Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics (LPNO)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/23698
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/3.806585
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