Ultraviolet single-frequency ns-pulses with high average output power

Author

Spiekermann, S. ; Wang, S. ; Laurell, F. ; Freitag, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

440

Abstract

Summary form only given. There is a high demand for ultrastable, ultra-violet single-frequency pulses in a large number of applications. Two examples are writing fiber Bragg gratings and LIDAR systems. Both applications need high average output power. However, a very compact approach to obtain single-frequency UV pulses has been realized, but the average output power was low. Other similar laser systems lead to sufficiently high average output power, but suffer from low pulse to pulse stability. We report on a laser system that combines the advantages of both of the previous laser systems, single-frequency operation and high average output power.

Keywords

Q-switching; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; neodymium; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; ring lasers; solid lasers; LIDAR systems; Nd:YAG laser; Q-switched ring laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; average output power; compact approach; fiber Bragg gratings; high average output power; laser applications; laser system; output power; pulse stability; single-frequency UV pulses; single-frequency operation; ultrastable ultra-violet single-frequency pulses; ultraviolet single-frequency nanosecond-pulses; Power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.907221

Filename

907221