SHORT PULSE INJECTION SEEDING OF Q-SWITCHED ND-GLASS LASER-OSCILLATORS - THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

被引:15
作者
BASU, S [1 ]
BYER, RL [1 ]
机构
[1] STANFORD UNIV,EDWARD L GINZTON LAB,STANFORD,CA 94305
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D O I
10.1109/3.44928
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A 0.5 GW peak power solid-state laser source has been demonstrated by injection seeding a Q-switched Nd: glass laser. In the first experimental demonstration, a Q-switched oscillator producing 101 mJ was seeded by a train of 11 ps long pulses from a CW mode-locked laser to produce injection mode-locked pulses under a 91 ns envelope. A theoretical analysis of injection seeding of a high-gain g-switched oscillator by the output of a mode-locked oscillator is presented. The numerical analysis presented in this paper predicts the minimum signal power required for injection mode locking and the temporal shape of the output pulse. The experimental advantages of injection mode locking include greater than 100 dB of effective amplification and noncritical cavity length adjustment of the seed resonator. © 1990 IEEE
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页码:149 / 157
页数:9
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