Amplitude and frequency stability of a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser operating at a single-frequency continuous-wave output power of 20 W.

Amplitude and frequency noise of an injection-locked diode-pumped Nd:YAG ring laser operating at a singlefrequency output power of 20 W cw are investigated. This laser system will be used as a light source for an interferometric gravitational-wave detector.

[1]  John L. Hall,et al.  Laser phase and frequency stabilization using an optical resonator , 1983 .

[2]  Bernard F. Schutz,et al.  Proposal for a Joint German-British Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector , 1989 .

[3]  R L Byer,et al.  6.5-W, 532-nm radiation by cw resonant external-cavity second-harmonic generation of an 18-W Nd:YAG laser in LiB(3)O(5). , 1991, Optics letters.

[4]  Charles C. Harb,et al.  Suppression of the intensity noise in a diode-pumped neodymium:YAG nonplanar ring laser , 1994 .

[5]  M. S. Bowers,et al.  Scaling CW diode-end-pumped Nd:YAG lasers to high average powers , 1992 .

[6]  D. Shoemaker,et al.  18 W single-frequency operation of an injection-locked, CW, Nd: YAG laser , 1989 .

[7]  R L Byer,et al.  Injection locking of a 13-W cw Nd:YAG ring laser. , 1989, Optics letters.

[8]  Herbert Welling,et al.  Electrooptically fast tunable miniature diode-pumped Nd:YAG ring laser , 1993 .

[9]  A. Tünnermann,et al.  High power continuous-wave diode-laser-pumped Nd:YAG laser , 1994 .

[10]  R L Byer,et al.  Design and characterization of a 5.5-W, cw, injection-locked fiber-coupled, laser-diode-pumped Nd:YAG miniature-slab laser. , 1994, Optics letters.

[11]  H. Welling,et al.  Investigation on amplitude and frequency noise of injection-locked diode-pumped Nd:YAG lasers , 1994 .

[12]  R. Byer,et al.  Monolithic, unidirectional single-mode Nd:YAG ring laser. , 1985, Optics letters.

[13]  Herbert Welling,et al.  15 W single-frequency operation of a cw, diode laser-pumped Nd: YAG ring laser , 1993 .