简介:Thecavitytuningcharacteristicsoforthogonallypolarizeddual-frequencyHe-Nelaserat1.15μmarepresented.Vectorial-extensionmodelbasedonsemi-classicallasertheoryrevealsthatcavitytuningcharacteristicsarerelatedtobeatfrequency,relativeexcitation,andtypeofNeisotope.Distortionsofcavitytuningcurvesbecomemoderatewiththeincreaseofbeatfrequencybecauseoftheweakeningofthecrosssaturationeffect.Distortionsareenhancedwiththeincreaseofrelativeexcitationbecauseofthecombinedactionoftheself-saturationandcross-saturationeffects.Byadoptingdual-isotopeNeinsteadofmonoiso-toplicNe,distortionsarereducedbecauseofthemisalignmentbetweenpeaksoftheself-saturationandnetgaincoefficients.Thetheoreticalcalculationsareingoodagreementwiththecorrespondingexperimentalresults.