The Study of a Multi-reentrant Two-mirror Ring Laser Cavity

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 光電工程研究所 === 89 === Diode laser pumped solid state laser is compact, and can generate high peak power laser with good output mode. It has been applied extensively in electronics, communication, and medical treatment in recent years. The purpose of this study is to develop a compact...

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Main Authors: Ying-Hui Chen, 陳穎慧
Other Authors: Huy-Zu Cheng
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2001
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14685396107668187846
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Summary:碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 光電工程研究所 === 89 === Diode laser pumped solid state laser is compact, and can generate high peak power laser with good output mode. It has been applied extensively in electronics, communication, and medical treatment in recent years. The purpose of this study is to develop a compact and practical ring laser system. The multi-reentrant ring laser system developed in this work composes of two spherical mirrors and a gain medium where the conventional ring laser systems have at least three mirrors to construct the laser cavity. The laser system is more compact and simple than conventional ring laser systems. It can be used for producing single frequency green and blue lasers. The laser system can also be applied in aviation, trace detection as well as compact picosecond mode-locked laser. We not only prove that the multi-reentrant laser system is feasible theoretically and experimentally, but also use the fundamental laser theory to find the relation among cavity length, number of points, number of circulation, and the distance between center of gain medium and optical axis. The exact solution we obtained is experimentally verified with good agreement. A comparison between exact solution and paraxial approximation is also performed. The beam paths observing from the top, side, and end view are analyzed for various multi-reentrant laser cavities. The stability of the cavity is numerically analyzed and experimentally verified with good agreement, too. Finally, the differences in cavity configuration between TEM01 mode and the figure-8 mode are compared in this thesis.