Gas-lens effect and cavity design of some frequency-stabilized He-Ne lasers.
It is shown that there exists an optimal cavity length which should minimize the frequency shifts induced by lenslike effects in intracavity saturated absorption lasers. Ideas are developed which provide a satisfactory explanation for the dispersion in modulation shifts observed in some recent laser intercomparisons.
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Université de Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de l'Horloge Atomique, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
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