TY - JOUR
T1 - Standing-wave forward-backward gain asymmetry in optically pumped gas lasers
AU - Laguarta, F.
AU - Merkle, G.
AU - Heppner, J.
AU - Corbaln, R.
AU - Vilaseca, R.
PY - 1986/1/1
Y1 - 1986/1/1
N2 - A new type of forward-backward asymmetry is reported for the 119-m emission from a linear-cavity CH3OH laser, near-resonantly pumped by a continuous-wave CO2 laser. The observed asymmetry is related to a strong traveling-wave pump field and also saturating standing-wave-generated fields, a situation typical for most optically pumped linear-cavity gas lasers. A simple interpretation of the experimental results is given in terms of multiphoton processes involving one pump photon and several generated photons. © 1986 The American Physical Society.
AB - A new type of forward-backward asymmetry is reported for the 119-m emission from a linear-cavity CH3OH laser, near-resonantly pumped by a continuous-wave CO2 laser. The observed asymmetry is related to a strong traveling-wave pump field and also saturating standing-wave-generated fields, a situation typical for most optically pumped linear-cavity gas lasers. A simple interpretation of the experimental results is given in terms of multiphoton processes involving one pump photon and several generated photons. © 1986 The American Physical Society.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/35949024176
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.831
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.831
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 57
SP - 831
EP - 834
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 7
ER -