Ultrashort CO/sub 2/ laser pulse generation by square-wave mode locking and cavity dumping
Journal Article
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· Opt. Lett.; (United States)
The techniques of active square-wave mode locking and cavity dumping are used for the first reported time in a cavity containing a 10-atm TE discharge CO/sub 2/ laser amplifier module. The cavity is seeded with radiation from a line-tunable cw CO/sub 2/ laser. The synchronizable, injection-locked, Q-switched, mode-locked, and cavity-dumped laser oscillator reliably produces 5-mJ, <500-psec single pulses (detection limited) with a jitter of < +- 50 psec relative to firing the UV-triggered spark gap. These pulses are the shortest reported for activity mode-locked CO/sub 2/ lasers.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A6, Canada
- OSTI ID:
- 6868171
- Journal Information:
- Opt. Lett.; (United States), Journal Name: Opt. Lett.; (United States) Vol. 12:2; ISSN OPLED
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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