Noise suppression of Nd:YVO4 solid-state lasers for telecommunication applications

This paper is intended to elaborate on the investigation and suppression of the relative intensity noise of a diode pumped Nd:YVO
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microchip laser. In addition to noise suppression at the relaxation oscillations, noise analysis is also reported. For these investigations a very simple, rate-equation-based model of the laser transfer function was used.