| Abstract: | The influence of changes in the refractive indices of the active medium and the loss modulator on the amplitude-detuning characteristic
of a CO2 laser was theoretically investigated. It is shown that at a comparatively great magnitude of sweeping the “instantaneous”
lasing frequency, the magnitude of the laser response increases not only in negative detunings, but also over a wide range
of positive detunings. The use of the procedure of changing the magnitude and sign of detuning as well as the range of sweeping
and the frequency of modulation makes it possible to realize various periodic and chaotic regimes of lasing, i.e., to exercise
control over the time and energy parameters of pulses over a very wide range.
B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70, F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated
from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 318–324, May–June, 1997. |
