Intensity-noise properties of injection-locked lasers

被引：67

作者：

Harb, CC

Ralph, TC

Huntington, EH

Freitag, I

McClelland, DE

Bachor, HA

机构：

[1] Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, The Australian National University, ACT

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1996年 / 54卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.54.4370

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We present experimental results that illustrate how laser intensity noise near the quantum-noise limit is transferred in an injection-locked cw Nd:(yttrium aluminum garnet) nonplanar ring-oscillator laser. We show that these results are in extremely good agreement with our quantum-mechanical model describing the injection locking process [T. C. Ralph, C. C. Harb, and H.-A. Bachor, Phys. Rev. A]. Three regions in the intensity-noise spectrum are identified and we show that different minimum noise levels exist in these regions. Finally, we show that the injection-locked laser can generate and preserve nonclassical states.

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页码：4370 / 4382

页数：13

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