Subnanosecond-pulse generation from an actively mode-locked XeCl laser
Abstract
Subnanosecond-pulse generation has been achieved in a UV preionized transverse-discharge XeCl laser by means of a direct active mode-locking technique by using an acousto-optic loss modulator in a novel configuration of the laser cavity. The pulse width was measured to be 660 psec, which was near the detection limit. This gave a pulse width of less than 500 psec when the response time of the detection system was taken into account.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1984
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1984OptL....9...35Y
- Keywords:
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- Laser Mode Locking;
- Picosecond Pulses;
- Rare Gas-Halide Lasers;
- Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Acousto-Optics;
- Chlorides;
- Laser Cavities;
- Laser Outputs;
- Light Modulation;
- Pulse Duration;
- Waveforms;
- Xenon Compounds;
- Lasers and Masers