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Physical characteristics of gas-laser operation under conditions of nonsynchronous frequency modulation

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The basic physical characteristics of the operation of a frequency-modulated gas laser are analyzed. It is shown that the frequency-modulation width is not limited by the resonator width. It is found that the condition for the appearance of oscillation in each secondary component depends on the amplitude of the neighboring secondary components, the modulation frequency, and the frequency deviation. Frequency modulation of an He-Ne laser is achieved experimentally. In the course of the experiment it is shown that the modulation frequency exceeds the reciprocal time for oscillation to be established in the resonator by more than an order of magnitude, while the frequency deviation exceeds this value by more than two orders of magnitude.

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  1. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, USSR

    É. S. Vorobeichikov, V. N. Parygin & L. N. Popov

  2. V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute, Tomsk State University, USSR

    É. S. Vorobeichikov, V. N. Parygin & L. N. Popov

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  1. É. S. Vorobeichikov
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  2. V. N. Parygin
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 28–32, September, 1978.

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Vorobeichikov, É.S., Parygin, V.N. & Popov, L.N. Physical characteristics of gas-laser operation under conditions of nonsynchronous frequency modulation. Soviet Physics Journal 21, 1132–1136 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00894561

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