Ring cavity for a raman capillary waveguide amplifier

Patent · Tue Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:864629

Kurnit, Norman A ^[1]

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1. Santa Fe, NM

A regenerative ring amplifier and regenerative ring oscillator which function to feed back a portion of the Stokes signal to complete the ring cavity. The ring cavity configuration allows the CO.sub.2 laser pump signal and Stokes signal to copropagate through the Raman capillary waveguide amplifier. A Raman capillary waveguide amplifier is also provided in the return leg of the ring cavity to increase gain without increasing the round trip time. Additionally, the ring cavity can be designed such that the amplifier Stokes signal is synchronous with the mode-locked spikes of the incoming CO.sub.2 laser pump signal.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Assignee: Kurnit, Norman A. (Santa Fe, NM)
• Patent Number(s): US 4394623
• Application Number: 06/229,023
• OSTI ID: 864629
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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