Title :
Single-state high-beam-quality XeCl laser with a phase-conjugate Brillouin mirror
Author :
Sugii, Masakatsu ; Okabe, Makoto ; Watanabe, Akio ; Sasaki, Keisuke
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan
fDate :
11/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A single-stage high-beam-quality XeCl laser, consisting of an oscillator and a double-pass amplifier with a phase-conjugate Brillouin mirror with no optical coupling between the oscillator and the amplifier, is discussed. Maximum output energy of 20 mJ with a pulse duration of 13 ns full width at half maximum has been obtained with a 0.0015-Å (469-MHz) linewidth, 1.2×diffraction-limited beam divergence from a circular 8-mm diameter beam
Keywords :
excimer lasers; mirrors; optical phase conjugation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; xenon compounds; 13 ns; 20 mJ; XeCl laser; diffraction-limited beam divergence; high-beam quality laser; output energy; phase-conjugate Brillouin mirror; pulse duration; single-stage laser; Brillouin scattering; Laser beams; Laser radar; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
