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One Is Not Enough: Intra-Cavity Spectroscopy with Multi-Mode Lasers

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Lasers, Spectroscopy and New Ideas

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When the laser was discovered more than 25 years ago as the ultimate outgrowth of spectroscopic work, it kept the physics community busy for more than a decade observing, surveying, and classifying all those surprising features of the new type of light and its interactions with matter. The early lasers, lacking technical sophistication, usually oscillated in a vast multitude of radiative modes. These systems were considered overly complex, and accordingly theoretical models and explanations were constructed for ideal single-mode lasers, which, however, barely could be demonstrated in experiments. It is perhaps not so surprising that it took ten years before emission spectra of a real multi-mode laser were subjected to detailed inspection. A close look revealed that the light flux of individual modes in their broad spectral comb did not vary smoothly — as was anticipated — across the full emission band. Instead, crests and crevices, rifts and ridges showed up in the recorded spectra. Soon these observed features were traced to either very weak absorption of matter or spurious interference inside the laser resonator [1]. This interpretation suggested that this ultra-sensitive response to weak extinction could be used for a novel spectroscopic technique.

1986–87 JILA Visiting Fellow. On leave from 1. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, D-2 Hamburg 36, F. R. Germany.

On leave from Lebedev Physical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR.

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Toschek, P.E., Baev, V.M. (1987). One Is Not Enough: Intra-Cavity Spectroscopy with Multi-Mode Lasers. In: Yen, W.M., Levenson, M.D. (eds) Lasers, Spectroscopy and New Ideas. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47872-0_5

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