Author Affiliations
1School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, Hangzhou 310024, China2State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China3Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China4Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. [in Chinese]
Fig. 1. Pump spectrum and Stokes gain spectrum when pump linewidth is longer ((a), (b)) and shorter ((c), (d)) than the Raman gain linewidth
Fig. 2. Response of phonon field amplitude in Raman laser and the inversion density in a conventional laser when the standing-wave cavity is resonating
Fig. 3. Schematic of the Raman oscillator based on the free spatial hole burning property in SRS. IM: input mirror, OC: output coupler, LPF: long-pass filter, L1 and L2: lenses
[26] Fig. 4. Scanning Fabry-Pérot interferometer traces of the Raman laser emission
[26] Fig. 5. Schemematic layout of the Raman laser by using H-C locking strategy, BS: beam sampler, HWP : half- wave plate, FL: focusing lens, IC: input coupler, OC: output coupler, PZT: piezoelectric translation stage, DM: dichroic mirror, QWP: quarter-wave plate, PBS: polarizing beam splitter, PD1 and PD2: photodetectors
[27] Fig. 6. Schematic layout of resonant pumping Raman laser by direction control of field in the ring cavity. The Pump source is the SolsTis Ti:Sapphire laser from M Squared Lasers Ltd. HR: high reflector; PR: partial reflector; IC/OC: input/output coupler; DM: dichroic mirror, HR at Stokes, HT at pump; BS: uncoated beam sampler; BM: beam dump;
λ∕2: half-wave plate;
λ∕4: quarter-wave plate
[29] Fig. 7. [in Chinese]
Fig. 7. (a) Temporal behavior of the forward Stokes and backward Stokes of the free-running Raman laser; (b) The Stokes trace of the free-running Raman laser by a scanning Fabry–Perot interferometer; (c) Temporal behavior of a unidirectional Raman laser using a feedback mirror. The inset shows stable single-mode operation of a scanning Fabry–Perot interferometer
[29] Fig. 8. Power stability of laser at highest output power
[30] Fig. 9. Schematic layout of the experimental setup of the second Stokes operation in ring cavity by cavity locking. Inset is the coating curve of the M1 mirror, where spot P, S and SS means the reflectivity of the M1 for pump, 1
st Stokes and 2
nd Stokes fields
[31] Fig. 10. Experimental setup of the single-longitudinal mode Raman lasers by self-mode supression effect of frequency doubling crystal
[33] Fig. 11. Number of lasing modes of output power of 620 nm as a function of LBO temperature. The blue insets show spectra at temperatures of 35.0 °C and 39.2 °C
[33] Fig. 12. (a) Frequency shift as a function of cavity length for output light; (b) Scanning Fabry–Perot interferometer trace of the single-frequency 589 nm laser
Fig. 13. Experimental setup of the single-longitudinal mode Raman lasers by using VBG
[1] Fig. 14. (a) Stokes output spectra with and without optical feedback from the volume Bragg grating (VBG); (b) Temporal fluctuations of the center wavelength in 90 s measured at 0.5 W Stokes power
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