Propagation of Gaussian beams through active layers

Verónica Vázquez; Juan C. Fernández; María T. Garea; Claudia L. Matteo; Liliana I. Perez; Patricio A. Sorichetti

doi:10.1117/12.2025712

18 November 2013 Propagation of Gaussian beams through active layers

Verónica Vázquez, Juan C. Fernández, María T. Garea, Claudia L. Matteo, Liliana I. Perez, Patricio A. Sorichetti

Proceedings Volume 8785, 8th Iberoamerican Optics Meeting and 11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications; 87852W (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2025712
Event: 8th Ibero American Optics Meeting/11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications, 2013, Porto, Portugal

Abstract

Knowledge of propagation, transmission and reflection properties of space- and time-limited beams is relevant to the classical description of electromagnetic field modes in laser and other optoelectronic devices. For many reasons, Gaussian beams have been the most widely studied; for instance, they correspond to the fundamental mode in cylindrical or rectangular resonators, and they are often desirable at the output of amplifiers. To describe the behavior of beams with a Gaussian amplitude profile, the usual method consists of making an approximation in Maxwell equations, such that the solution of the approximate equations is a Gaussian beam. In this work we propose a different method to study Gaussian beams in active media, describing the beam by a continuous spectrum (spatial or temporal) of plane waves. We consider active media far from saturation, i.e. the gain is independent of the electric field amplitude. As a first step in the study of propagation, transmission and reflection of pulses through thin layers of active media, we analyze the properties of the transmitted beam in the case of a thin slab with gain between two isotropic transparent semi-infinite media, assuming normal incidence of a two-dimensional, space- or time-limited gaussian beam.

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Verónica Vázquez, Juan C. Fernández, María T. Garea, Claudia L. Matteo, Liliana I. Perez, and Patricio A. Sorichetti "Propagation of Gaussian beams through active layers", Proc. SPIE 8785, 8th Iberoamerican Optics Meeting and 11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications, 87852W (18 November 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2025712

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