Title :
Alkali metal vapor

switches for synchronizing mode-locked laser pulse trains with external events
Author :
Sorokin, P.P. ; Lankard, J.R.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
fDate :
10/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Capacitive discharges in cesium vapor and rubidium vapor are used to realize externally controllable

switches for synchronizing the appearance of pulse trains from passively mode-locked neodymium-glass and ruby lasers with other events occurring on a microsecond time scale.
Keywords :
Absorption; Frequency synchronization; Gas lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical pulses; Pulsed laser deposition; Ring lasers; Switches; Temperature;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1972.1076866