We demonstrate a novel Er3+-doped fibre laser operating in orthogonally polarized dual-frequency modes and its application to electric current sensing with frequency read-out. A Faraday rotating mirror and spatial hole burning effects in a gain medium and in a saturable absorber are utilized to control the lasing mode and polarization. The polarization mode beat frequency changes linearly in re...

Periodical switching laser pulses with nanosecond pulse width and several kilowatts peak power from wideseparated multilongitudinal-mode oscillation were observed experimentally in laser-diode pumped passively Q-switched Yb:YAG microchip laser with Cr:YAG as saturable absorber. Pulses from different longitudinal modes oscillate alternatively. Periodical pulses oscillation dynamics induced by sp...

High-linearity, low-noise DFB lasers are necessary for analog optical communications, including subcarrier multiplexed systems, wireless personal communication systems (PCS) service and phased array radar. In this thesis, we examine the dynamic range and distortion for a Fujitsu DFB laser. We extract parameters from the device and use these parameters to simulate the distortion characteristics....

A stochastic, semiclassical model is developed for a multimode, homogeneously broadened laser with rapid dipole dephasing, appropriate for semiconductor, Ti:sapphire, or dye lasers. The theory self-consistently incorporates population dynamics including temporal beating effects and relaxation oscillations, spatial hole burning, coherent-wave mixing, and quantum noise. The model is valid for sin...

Spin ensemble based hybrid quantum systems suffer from a significant degree of decoherence resulting from the inhomogeneous broadening of the spin transition frequencies in the ensemble. We demonstrate that this strongly restrictive drawback can be overcome simply by burning two narrow spectral holes in the spin spectral density at judiciously chosen frequencies. Using this procedure we find an...