Местоположение издательства:New York, N.Y., United States
Аннотация:Characteristics of a Zeeman ring laser (ZRL) have been investigated theoretically and experimentally in the conditions of a two- and three-frequency generation. A two-frequency ZRL operates on the counterpropagating waves of a single mode. In a three-frequency ZRL, in addition to these waves, a running wave of the neighbor longitudinal mode (a third frequency) is excited. It is shown that an excitement of the third frequency leads to the appearance of kinks in the dependence of the output intensity on the frequency detuning from the gain-line center. A bias appearing in the presence of a magnetic field in the active medium changes due to a three-frequency interaction. Interaction of the excited modes is very sensitive to the value of the isotope shift between Ne20 and Ne22. There is a large spread of the measured earlier values of the shift. The results obtained in this study allow one to choose the most appropriate value of the isotope shift.