Effect of Perturbations in an Active Medium on the Instability of the Difference Frequency of Laser Radiation

摘要

A frequency-stabilized helium-neon laser with Zeeman frequency splitting in the magnetic field was studied. A series of pulses with repetition frequency equal to the frequency difference caused by the splitting of the gain profile by the magnetic field was used as a reference signal for a laser interferometer. The modulation of discharge current by electric noise or natural oscillations of the discharge current were found to lengthen the edges of these pulses, which decreases the accuracy of measurements with a laser interferometer.