Injection locking of a KrF laser using a frequency-doubled argon-ion laser pulse

Author

Shan, X.X. ; Fedosejevs, Robert ; Harwood, B. ; Yamanaka, C. ; Thompson, David C. ; Offenberger, Allan A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta., Canada

Volume

26

Issue

1

fYear

1990

fDate

1/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

176

Abstract

The injection locking of a KrF unstable resonator module has been studied experimentally using a dye-laser-amplified, frequency-doubled seed pulse generated from the 496.5-nm output of an etalon-narrowed argon-ion laser. Partial injection locking was observed starting at input powers of 0.1 W, with greater than 90% injection locking being achieved at input powers of over 1 kW. The output linewidth was experimentally determined to be less than 100 MHz, making possible an ultra-high-brightness KrF laser source

Keywords

brightness; excimer lasers; ion lasers; krypton compounds; laser beam applications; laser mode locking; 0.1 W; 1 kW; 496.5 nm; 90 percent; Ar⁺; KrF laser; argon-ion laser pulse; dye-laser-amplified; etalon-narrowed argon-ion laser; excimer lasers; frequency-doubled; frequency-doubled seed pulse; injection locking; input powers; output linewidth; ultra-high-brightness KrF laser source; unstable resonator module; Brillouin scattering; Frequency; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser fusion; Laser modes; Laser transitions; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.44930

Filename

44930