Question: Can someone help me with this? 2. Population inversion versus pumping in an upper-level three-level laser sys- tem. It is possible (though not likely in

Can someone help me with this?

Can someone help me with this? 2. Population inversion versus pumping in

2. Population inversion versus pumping in an "upper-level" three-level laser sys- tem. It is possible (though not likely in practice) to have a three-level laser system which is pumped on the 1 - 3 transition and in which ew laser action takes place on the 3 - 2 rather then the 2 - 1 transition (no such real system is known). Suppose that level 3 in such a system is long-lived with lifetime 73; level 2 has a short relaxation time to the ground state; and the system is pumped with transition probability Wp on the 1 -+ 3 transition. Carry through the rate-equation analysis (in the optical approximation) necessary to find the population inversion on the 3 - 2 transition as a function of pumping power Wp. Compare the AN versus Wp curve for this system to to those for the four-level and three-level models shown in Figure 6.4. Four-level Three-level System system Laser threshold FIGURE 6.4 Laser population inversion Inverted population AN inversion versus normalized pumping Normalized pump rate, Wer rate for idealized four-level and three-level laser systems

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