Title

Tailorable dispersion in a four-wave mixing laser

Authors

Demetrious T. Kutzke, College of William and Mary
Owen Wolfe, College of William and Mary
Simon M. Rochester
Dmitry Budker
Irina Novikova, College of William and MaryFollow
Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, College of William and MaryFollow

Document Type

Article

Department/Program

Physics

Journal Title

OPTICS LETTERS

Pub Date

7-15-2017

Volume

42

Issue

14

Abstract

We present experimental results demonstrating controllable dispersion in a ring laser by monitoring the lasing-frequency response to cavity-length variations. Pumping on an N-type level configuration in Rb-87, we tailor the intra- cavity dispersion slope by varying experimental parameters, such as pump-laser frequency, atomic density, and pump power. As a result, we can tune the pulling factor, i.e., the ratio of the laser frequency shift to the empty cavity frequency shift, of our laser by more than an order of magnitude. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America

Recommended Citation

Kutzke, Demetrious T.; Wolfe, Owen; Rochester, Simon M.; Budker, Dmitry; Novikova, Irina; and Mikhailov, Eugeniy E., Tailorable dispersion in a four-wave mixing laser (2017). OPTICS LETTERS, 42(14).
10.1364/OL.42.002846

DOI

10.1364/OL.42.002846