References

Section 7: References

The reference list in the 1992 memo “Tilts, kinks and mode interference” is reproduced in the Introduction.

C A Hill, “Coupling loss theory of single-mode waveguide resonators”, Appl. Opt., vol. 24, pp. 1283-1290, 1985.

V N Bel’tugov et al., “Selective properties of multimode waveguide resonators”, preprint 81, Moscow, 1987. To my knowledge we never met these authors, but our groups knew and referred to each other’s work; this 1987 paper considered some effects of misalignment and guide length in lasers with circular-bore guides. Krzysztof Abramski (then working at Hull with Denis Hall, and later a professor at Wroclaw University) knew Russian and sat with me to translate and discuss.

J Henningsen, M Hammerich and A Olafsson, “Mode structure of hollow dielectric waveguide lasers”, Appl. Phys. B, vol. 51, pp. 272-284, 1990. This also has the usual list of key references to laser research by Richard Abrams, John Degnan, Denis Hall, Robert Gerlach, William Rigrod, Fred Pete Roullard III and others.

J Banerji, A R Davies, R W J Devereux, C A Hill and R M Jenkins, “Transmission characteristics of folded waveguide structures”, CLEO 1988 poster session 1(TUM), Anaheim, California:

C A Hill, G N Pearson P Tapster, J M Vaughan and G M Miller, “Polarization states and output powers of a CO2 laser with an electro-optic phase retarder”, Appl. Opt., vol. 27, pp. 5381-5385, September 1996. Lasers often include polarisation-sensitive elements such as Brewster plates, which (for example) transmit the desired linear polarisation and suppress the orthogonal polarisation (by reflecting it out of the cavity). By applying a voltage to the electro-optic crystal, the polarisation could be adjusted so that – at first sight – the loss would be very large, the laser could never lase, and we would have a useful controllable pulsed device. Extra Brewster plates could be inserted to make doubly sure. But some Dundee / Malvern designs favoured the unwanted polarisation as the number of plates was increased. “The theoretical threshold condition (i.e., the retardation required to extinguish the laser) is obtained from a cavity round-trip Jones matrix. We show that adding extra Brewster plates may be counterproductive in that the required retardation voltage increases”. This seemed peculiar, but (once again) I had learned to trust resonators to explore the options and find the lowest-loss available field, and the Jones-matrix model supported our lab results.

G N Pearson, M Harris, C A Hill, J M Vaughan and A M Hornby, “Inter-transverse-mode injection locking and subthreshold gain measurements in a CO2 waveguide laser”, IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol 31, pp. 1064-1068, 1995.

C J Shackleton, R Loudon, C A Hill, T J Shepherd, M Harris and J M Vaughan, “Transverse modes above and below threshold in a single-frequency laser", Physical Review A, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 4908-4920, 1995.

“Talbot” imaging

R Ulrich and G Ankele, "Self-imaging in homogeneous planar optical waveguides." Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 27, pp. 337-339, 1975.

J M Heaton, R M Jenkins, D R Wright, J T Parker, J C H Birbeck and K P Hilton, "Novel 1-to-N way integrated optical beam splitters using symmetric mode mixing in GaAs/AlGaAs multimode waveguides", Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 61, pp. 1754-1757, 1992.

J Banerji, Subimal Deb, R M Jenkins and A R Davies, “Quasi-Gaussian output from dual case I waveguide resonators with mirrors of step-index reflectivity profiles”, Applied Optics, vol. 48, pp. 539-544, 2009.

Cavity degeneracy

T Klaassen, J de Jong, M van Exter and J P Woerdman, "Transverse mode coupling in an optical resonator", Opt. Lett., vol. 30, pp. 1959-1961, 2005.

Reviews

The tutorial review “Waveguide laser resonators” (in The Physics and Technology of Laser Resonators, ed. D R Hall and P E Jackson, CRC, 1990) has familiar points and a jeu de mots:

A later tutorial review is “Waveguide resonators” in Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications, Vol. I, ed. C Webb and J Jones, IOP Publishing 2004. The 2016/2017 edition has small changes.