Transform-limited-bandwidth injection locking of an XeF laser

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982 · AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5260607

Bigio, I J; Slatkine, M

A pulsed Ar-ion laser, operating on the 3511 A line of the doubly ionized species, has been used to injection lock an unstable resonator XeF laser. A single longitudinal mode of the Ar-ion laser was selected with a Fabry-Perot etalon, and the resulting XeF bandwidth was measured to be approx. 50 MHz which is the Fourier-transform limit corresponding to the XeF laser pulse duration of approx. 20 ns. Since the XeF B ..-->.. X emission originates from more than one upper vibrational level, for this pulse duration it was determined that approx. 60% of the total output was available to be locked to the reference oscillator line. The 2 MW output beam was also found to be near (<1.5 x) diffraction limited.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM
• OSTI ID: 5260607
• Report Number(s): CONF-820336-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 90
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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