Abstract

The interaction of a scanning Fabry-Perot on the laser source is investigated. The system of the mode-matched laser resonator and the scanning interferometer is treated analytically as a multi-mirror resonator. The changes of the laser intensity and the oscillating frequency are numerically calculated for a special case of weak coupling. The calculations and the experiments show that the laser intensity is critically dependent on the separation of the two coupled resonators.

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Double Etalon Q-Switching of a Continuously Pumped Nd/YAG Laser

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Recent Developments in Optoelectronic and Spectroscopic Techniques at Queen’s University, Belfast

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