Pulsed emission from a CO2 laser with a controllable VO2 mirror
Abstract
The paper reports on the control of CO2-laser emission at 10.6 microns using a multilayer optical resonator, i.e., a controllable laser mirror containing a layer of VO2. The control is based on resonator tuning as a result of dielectric-metal phase transition in the VO2 layer under heating. The prescribed mode is excited via heating of a specified part of the mirror by pulses from an Nd:glass laser.
- Publication:
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Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnischeskoi Fiziki
- Pub Date:
- May 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990PZhTF..16Q...8B
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Mirrors;
- Optical Resonators;
- Tunable Lasers;
- Vanadium Oxides;
- Electron Beams;
- Pulsed Radiation;
- Lasers and Masers