Abstract

Two narrow linewidth Nd:YAG unidirectional nonplanar ring oscillator lasers were electronically phase locked using photorefractive two-wave mixing in an iron-doped indium phosphide (InP:Fe) crystal as an optical phase detector. The phase lock loop phase error signal was derived from a low-amplitude sinusoidal phase modulation signal impressed on the strong local oscillator beam at a frequency large compared to the inverse of the photorefractive-grating formation time. A 60-mW pump laser was phase locked to a 10-nW signal laser beam with an rms phase error less than 0.1 rad. No spatial mode matching, phase conjugate mirror configuration or optical coupling between the two laser cavities were required.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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