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Raman gain suppression with multimode lasers

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6961410
We have found the gain of a Raman amplifier to be almost completely suppressed when the amplifier is pumped by a multilongitudinal mode laser and seeded with an initially uncorrelated Stokes beam that is nearly as intense as the pump. This effect is predicted by a plane-wave model of Raman amplification that accounts for multimode pump and Stokes fields. Our experiments have also demonstrated that the beam quality of the pump is maintained to the extent that the amplification is suppressed.
Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Lexington, MA (USA). Lincoln Lab.
OSTI ID:
6961410
Report Number(s):
AD-A-217590/9/XAB; JA--6272
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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