Abstract
Based on calculations and experiments, a He-Ne laser has been developed with effective intracavity magnetooptical modulation at λ = 1.15 μm. A polarization-anisotropic element — a magnetic diffraction grating made of yttrium iron garnet — is mounted in a matched passive arm of the triple-mirror cavity of the laser and serves as the modulator element. Modulation is produced using the Faraday effect, which simultaneously leads to efficient diffraction of the laser radiation on the asymmetric strip domain structure of a magnetic diffraction grating and to rotation of the E vector. The Jones matrix method is used to calculate the frequency and polarization characteristics. These, along with the modulation characteristics, were also studied experimentally. It is shown that amplitude modulation at frequencies up to 180 kHz takes place for small single-pass Faraday rotation angles (θ F ). The threshold frequency is determined by the response time of the magnetizing Helmholtz coil. The depth of modulation is 50%. For θ F > θ t (where θ t is the threshold), frequency modulation takes place with a deviation of up to several megahertz.
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