A eigenmode expansion method (EME) is proposed to solve the laser eigenmode of optical resonator with intra-cavity phase aberration (ICPA) semi-analytically. In this model, the eigen-equation of OR, so called self-reappearance condition is translated to be a linear eigen-value problem, and it is proved that all eigen-modes can be obtained for any resonators. The linear eigen-value problem is solved numerically, and it gives out the transverse distribution and corresponding eigen-value of each eigenmode, which describe the light field and diffraction loss, respectively. Compared with traditional methods, EME is a semi-analytical method which is unlimited by the order of phase aberration, and it can be solved without numerical iteration. The existing of local modes (LM) in OR with ICPA is proved with EME, which may be the source of local damage on solid medium. And the use of output coupler with transmission, such as graded reflectivity mirror (GRM), can prevent the appearance of LM and improve beam quality. Specially, for the ICPA coupled with laser extraction, the linear eigen-value equations become a nonlinear problem, which are numerically solved by the finite-difference Jacobian method. The result shows that the optical resonator exhibits transverse modal instability (TMI) with certain cavity parameters.
In this paper, the operation properties of unstable resonators with graded reflectivity mirror (GRM-UR) are studied numerically in a solid-state thin-disk laser in terms of beam quality and power threshold. By comparing to traditional unstable resonator with same output coupling fraction, results show that the GRM-UR is advantageous to suppress ASE effect, but hard to achieve better beam quality when the phase aberrations cannot be well compensated within the cavity.
Chirp characteristics of silicon based Mach-Zehnder-interferometer (MZI) modulators with PIN diode and PN diode are
fully analyzed, respectively. Simulation result shows that the chirp parameter is negative and influenced by the carrier
absorption effect, the amplitude and frequency of applied sinusoidal modulating signals
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