Title :
Passively Q-switched microchip lasers and applications
Author_Institution :
Lincoln Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
Passively Q-switched microchip lasers are compact, robust, high-performance devices that produce subnanosecond, multikilowatt optical pulses. They are enabling new classes of fieldable instruments to perform ranging and imaging, micromachining, material characterization, and environmental monitoring.
Keywords :
Q-switching; laser beam machining; laser ranging; microchip lasers; micromachining; optical pulse generation; environmental monitoring; fieldable instruments; high-performance devices; imaging; material characterization; micromachining; multikilowatt optical pulses generation; passively Q-switched microchip lasers applications; ranging; subnanosecond optical pulse generation; Laser applications; Laser modes; Microchip lasers; Monitoring; Optical imaging; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Robustness;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7734-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1313829
