The theory of temporal compression of intense pulses in a metal vapor
Abstract
We examine compression of near-resonant pulses in metal vapor in the nonlinear regime. Our calculations examine nonlinear effects on compression of optimally-chirped pulses of various fluences. In addition, we compare model predictions with experimental results for compression of 4 nsec Nd:YAG pumped dye pulses.
- Publication:
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Presented at the CLEO '91: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
- Pub Date:
- November 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990cleo.confQ..12S
- Keywords:
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- Compression Loads;
- Dye Lasers;
- Metal Vapor Lasers;
- Metal Vapors;
- Pulses;
- Computation;
- Nonlinearity;
- Predictions;
- Lasers and Masers