Continuous-wave mode-locked Nd:YAG-pumped subpicosecond dye lasers
Abstract
The second harmonic of a CW mode-locked Nd:YAG laser using KTiOPO4 has resulted in 0.532-micron optical pulses of 39-psec duration with a conversion efficiency of 18 percent. Stable, reproducible optical pulses of 0.24-psec duration have been obtained in a synchronously pumped linear cavity, containing both gain and saturable-absorber dye jets. Optical pulses of duration 0.15 psec have been achieved in a synchronously pumped ring cavity, but not without instabilities.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1364/OL.8.000554
- Bibcode:
- 1983OptL....8..554J
- Keywords:
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- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Dye Lasers;
- Laser Mode Locking;
- Laser Pumping;
- Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers;
- Yag Lasers;
- Autocorrelation;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- Frequency Converters;
- Harmonic Generations;
- Laser Cavities;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Picosecond Pulses;
- Lasers and Masers