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DPSS LIGHTWAVE 142C



  The LWE-142 use a nonplanar ring oscillator (NPRO) based on a monolithic
Nd:YAG crystal.  See:
http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia_n.html#k_nonplanar_ring_oscillators
for some info on the NPRO laser design.

The output of the NPRO is at 1,064 nm with a single frequency and single
spatial mode (TEM00).  This feeds a separate resonant frequency doubler -
outside the cavity, unlike virtually all other CW green lasers.  Most of
the desirable characteristics of the NPRO laser are preserved after
doubling including the narrow line-width and low noise resulting in a
super coherence length, estimated to be greater than 1000 meters.


The LWE-142 is a high quality single frequency green (532 nm) DPSS laser based on a very elegant but unusual design. This laser was developed by Lightwave Electronics, now a part of JDS Uniphase. Go to JDS Uniphase, "Product Categories: Commercial Lasers", "Solid State Lasers", "Laser, Solid-State, CW, 532 (NPRO 142)".

Three things differentiate the LWE-142 from other lasers in the same power class:

  1. A monolithic NonPlanar Ring Oscillator (NPRO) at the fundamental frequency of 1,064 nm. The NPRO is inherently single frequency (single longitudinal mode), has very low noise and narrow linewidth, and is very robust with no chance of changes in internal alignment, or contamination of intracavity optics.
  2. An external monolithic resonant frequency doubler to obtain 532 nm. Most of the desirable characteristics of the NPRO are preserved in the doubling process. The doubler possesses the same immunity to misalignment and contamination.
  3. A control algorithm in firmware to identify and lock the lasing mode to a longitudinal (axial) doubler mode and maintain constant power.

The heart of the LWE-142 is the NPRO, fabricated from a single (monolithic) Nd:YAG crystal. (The original acronym was "MISER" standing for: Monolithic Isolated Single-mode End-pumped Ring, but NPRO seems to have become more popular.) The NPRO crystal is cut in a very specific way that results in the intracavity beam not bouncing around in a single plane inside the crystal as would be the case in a conventional ring laser. This is shown in NonPlanar Ring Oscillator (NPRO) Geometry. In the diagram, the beam path is from the front (curved) surface, to the angled surface on the far right, up to the top surface, down to the angled surface on the far left, and back to the front surface, which accepts the pump beam, serves as the output coupler for the laser beam, and acts as a weak polarizer in reflection for the intracavity beam. All but the input/output surface are planar and angled for total internal reflection so losses are very close to zero.

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