Active-passive mode-locked Nd:YAG oscillator
Abstract
An active-passive mode-locked Nd:YAG oscillator provides greatly improved shot-to-shot reproducibility compared with passive mode-locking. Effects of modulator drive power, laser cavity length, and intracavity etalons on the pulse width and stability are given. Using two-photon-fluorescence techniques the pulse width was 35.9 + or - 1.7 psec and the corresponding pulse energy was 166 + or - 6 microjoule.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- August 1982
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1982ApOpt..21.2897L
- Keywords:
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- Laser Cavities;
- Laser Mode Locking;
- Laser Outputs;
- Light Modulation;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Yag Lasers;
- Fluorescence;
- Laser Stability;
- Pulse Duration;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LASERS: NEODYMIUM;
- PULSES