Circular geometric and Laguerre-Gaussian modes in a dye laser with an axicon-based pumping scheme
摘要
An ensemble of circular geometric modes with several earlier unobserved ones as well as Laguerre-Gaussian petal modes of different orders are obtained in a 580 nm Rhodamine 6 G dye laser pumped by pulses of 532 nm radiation via a cuvette with an axicon in a liquid or in air. The geometric modes family is illustrated by the fractal frequency spectrum of a plano-spherical resonator. Switching of geometric to Laguerre-Gaussian modes is demonstrated in a degenerate configuration of the laser resonator simply by changing the liquid in the cuvette.