Condensation of the emission spectrum of a wide-band laser in the case of intracavity emission scattering by an aerosol

Autor: Podmar'kov, Yu.P., Frolov, M.P.
Zdroj: Quantum Electronics; September 22, 2000, Vol. 30 Issue: 8 p669-672, 4p
Abstrakt: It is found that inserting aerosol in a cavity of a multimode (wide-band) Co:MgF2 laser can strongly affect its emission spectrum, provided the typical size of aerosol particles is comparable to the laser wavelength (~2 μm). In the presence of aerosol, intensity spikes are formed in the spectrum at the initial lasing stage, which develop in time. At moments of time ~100 μs, condensation of the spectrum was observed, which manifested itself as a sharp (more than two orders of magnitude) narrowing of the laser emission spectrum down to the value determined by the spectral resolution of a spectrograph (not better than 0.04 cm-1), with an insignificant decrease in the output energy.
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