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Circuit for synchronizing a mode-locked oscillator-amplifier dye laser with a streak camera detection system

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6417871
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This patent describes a mode-locked oscillator-amplifier dye laser system synchronized with a streak camera detection system comprising: a mode-locked continuous wave laser; a dye laser pumped by the mode-locked continuous wave laser; an optical amplifier chain to amplify the pulse output of the dye laser; a Nd;YAG laser to pump the optical amplifier chain; a synchronization circuit which drives the Nd:YAG laser using a lamp out signal from the Nd:YAG laser and a sync signal from a mode-lock driver which drives the mode-locked continuous wave laser such that the pump pulse from the Nd:YAG to the optical amplifier chain overlaps with the pulse output of the dye laser as the pulse output arrives in each stage of the optical amplifier chain; a streak camera triggered by a pulse obtained by deflecting a portion of the output of the optical amplifier chain with a beam-splitter to a photodiode; and a silicon intensified target detector to receive the output of the streak camera.

Assignee:
Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC
Patent Number(s):
US 4658218
OSTI ID:
6417871
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
420300* -- Engineering-- Lasers-- (-1989)
ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS
ALUMINIUM OXIDES
AMPLIFIERS
BEAM SPLITTING
CAMERAS
CHALCOGENIDES
DYE LASERS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
FERRITE GARNETS
LASERS
LIQUID LASERS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MINERALS
MODE LOCKING
NEODYMIUM LASERS
OPTICAL PUMPING
OSCILLATORS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHOTODIODES
PULSES
PUMPING
RADIATION DETECTORS
SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES
SI SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS
SILICATE MINERALS
SOLID STATE LASERS
STREAK CAMERAS
SYNCHRONIZATION
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS