title: Study of relaxation oscillations in continuous-wave intracavity Raman lasers.
abstract: We study the relaxation oscillations in a continuous-wave intracavity Raman laser both theoretically and experimentally. Analytic expressions for the relaxation oscillation frequency are derived from the rate-equations and are validated by experiments. We show that some important experimental parameters such as the effective Raman gain coefficient and intracavity Stokes loss can be determined simply by measuring the relaxation oscillation frequency versus pump power.
authors.affiliation: MQ Photonics Research Centre, Department of Physics and Engineering, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia. Jipeng@science.mq.edu.au
authors.forename: Jipeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Helen M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Pask
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Spence
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000295:instrumentation*