Temporal shaping of nanosecond CO2 laser pulses in multiphoton saturable absorbers
Abstract
It was shown that substantial temporal distortion of nanosecond 10.6 micrometer laser pulses occurs in traversing multiphoton saturable absorbers. The risetime and pulse delay effects appear to depend both on fluence and wavelength, and to be qualitatively consistent with predictions of a simple two level absorption model.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 1981 Los Alamos Conf. on Optics
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981opti.conf....6H
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Multiphoton Absorption;
- Time Dependence;
- Absorption Spectra;
- Laser Pumping;
- Power Amplifiers;
- Lasers and Masers