Lecture 8: Laser amplifiers

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Four-level pumping An external source of energy pumps atoms from level 0 to level 3 at a rate R. If the decay from level 3 to level 2 is sufficiently fast, it may be taken to be instantaneous, in which case pumping to level 3 is equivalent to pumping level 2 at the rate R 2 = R. However, in this case, atoms are neither pumped into nor out of level 1, s.t. R 1 = 0. Thus, in the absence of amplifier radiation (W i = = 0), the steady-state population difference is given by (see p.86) N 0 R 2 1 1 21 92
Four-level pumping In most four-level systems, the nonradiative decay component in the 2 to 1 transition is negligible ( sp > sp >> 1 , s.t. N 0 R sp s sp And therefore N R sp 1 sp W i We have assumed that the pumping rate R is independent of the population difference N = N 2 –N 1 . 93 93
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