• DocumentCode
    2956678
  • Title

    Coupled-cavity passive Q-switching

  • Author

    Sorokin, Evgeni ; Sorokina, Irina T.

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Inst., Tech. Univ. Wien, Austria
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    10-15 Sept. 2000
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. We show that an absorbing medium in a coupled cavity can be used to obtain a Q-switched regime of operation. At the same time, such a regime can occur as an undesirable effect in laser pumping schemes, when feedback to the pump laser is not sufficiently suppressed. We give a theory which allows one to estimate the critical parameters in order to optimize or exclude the Q-switching.
  • Keywords
    Q-switching; laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; optical pumping; solid lasers; Q-switched regime; absorbing medium; coupled cavity; coupled-cavity passive Q-switching; critical parameters; laser pumping schemes; pump laser feedback; solid lasers; Equations; Estimation theory; Filters; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical coupling; Parameter estimation; Pump lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Nice
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6319-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2000.910355
  • Filename
    910355