Abstract
In this dissertation a rigorous analysis is performed on the reentrant non-planar ring laser cavity constructed by the Herriott-type multi-pass cell. Since the non-planar ring cavity is a non-orthogonal cavity, so the ABCD matrix method used to analyze the beam propagation is not valid. A rigorous method using Gaussian beam propagation is needed. The beam rotation, astigmatism, and spherical aberration are considered to obtain a self-consistent solution of the Gaussian beam. It turns out that spherical aberration is a very important issue for this non-planar resonator. Without taking into account the spherical aberration, a stable resonator would be difficult to realize. By using a self-consistent Gaussian beam propagation method, the characteristic of laser beam was analyzed and compared with that of the ABCD approximation method.
The reentrant ring cavity is very sensitive to cavity length, especially when the planar and non-planar configurations have the same output beams; therefore, it is very important to consider a rigorous method using Gaussian beam propagation. By considering the coordinate transformation of the beam after mirror reflection, a non-planar figure-8 ring cavity can be treated as an orthogonal cavity except for an exchange of tangential and Sagittal planes after each reflection. A simple astigmatic Gaussian beam approach is used to analyze the non-planar figure-8 ring cavity, and an analytic solution is obtained. For the general case of the multi-pass non-planar ring cavity, a general astigmatic Gaussian beam approach is used to treat the problem. The general form of mirror phase shift is used, and two important differences compared to the ABCD method were found. Firstly, the spot size is always elliptical while the spot size is circular using the ABCD approximation. Secondly, a second stable region is found in the cavity, the width of the second stable region is smaller than the first stable regi
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-1122105-094428 |
| Date | 22 November 2005 |
| Creators | Tuan, Hung-Tsang |
| Contributors | Fu-Jen Kao, Sheng-Lung Huang, chao-Mimg Fu, Hua-Ming Chen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-1122105-094428 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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