SELECTION OF HIGH-POWER NANOSECOND PULSES FROM LARGE-APERTURE CO2 OSCILLATORS

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APOLLONOV, VV
CORKUM, PB
TAYLOR, RS
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[1] National Research Council of Canada, Division of Physics, Ottawa
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10.1063/1.91054
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O59 [应用物理学];
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A high-contrast 6-J 3-ns pulse has been obtained from an injection mode-locked TEA CO2 oscillator using an extracavity SF6-He saturable absorber to suppress the prepulse energy to <1 μJ and an intracavity semiconductor transmission switch to suppress postpulses. The techniques described in this paper will allow the frequency and transverse-mode control of an oscillator to be maintained to much higher powers than are presently possible.
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