Channeled spectrum of a fiber laser
| Autor: | Guy Stephan, Thierry Chartier, Patrice Le Boudec, Pierre-Luc François, Roland Leners, E. Delevaque, François Sanchez |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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| Zdroj: | Optics Letters. 18:355 |
| ISSN: | 1539-4794 0146-9592 |
| DOI: | 10.1364/ol.18.000355 |
| Popis: | We describe the polarization properties of a long Nd(3+)-doped optical fiber laser. An intracavity prism acts as a dichroic element and fixes the polarization of the laser beam essentially in its plane of incidence. The slight birefringence of the fiber makes a wavelength-dependent phase plate that modifies the state of the polarization. In the laser output spectrum, the azimuth for the elliptically polarized field can thus rotate by several times pi/2 if the fiber is long enough. This gives a channeled spectrum when observed through a polarizer. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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