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Stimulated Stokes and Antistokes Raman Scattering in Microspherical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators
Published on: April 4, 2016
Study of relaxation oscillations in continuous-wave intracavity Raman lasers
Jipeng Lin1, Helen M Pask, Andrew J Lee
1MQ Photonics Research Centre, Department of Physics and Engineering, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia. Jipeng@science.mq.edu.au
Abstract:
We study the relaxation oscillations in a continuous-wave intracavity Raman laser both theoretically and experimentally. Analytic expressions for the relaxation oscillation frequency are derived from the rate-equations and are validated by experiments. We show that some important experimental parameters such as the effective Raman gain coefficient and intracavity Stokes loss can be determined simply by measuring the relaxation oscillation frequency versus pump power.
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