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Acousto-optic modulators as unidirectional devices in ring lasers
Optics Letters
|October 2, 2009
Abstract:
Acousto-optic modulators can act as optical diodes and force the unidirectional single-axial-mode operation of ring lasers. We explain this effect in terms of the Doppler shift of the scattered light beams and present results of experiments in support of this theory.
