Transform-limited-bandwidth injection locking of an XeF laser
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 (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 5315415
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-82-960; CONF-820336-7; ON: DE82014062
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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