Title :
Time-gated injection for control of the buildup of TEA CO/sub 2/ lasers
Author :
Shinozaki, Tetsuo ; Suda, Akira ; Nagasaka, Ken ; Tashiro, Hisato
Author_Institution :
RIKEN, Inst. of Phys. & Chem. Res., Saitama, Japan
Abstract :
Summary form only given. In this paper, we report a new method, time-gated injection, to reduce the spread of buildup time together with the time jitter in the TEA CO/sub 2/ laser. In this method, the injection beam is introduced to the TEA laser cavity after the gain becomes sufficiently high. The time required for the longitudinal-mode evolution in the early stage of buildup is shortened and the fluctuations in the buildup time caused during this period of time can be eliminated.
Keywords :
carbon compounds; gas lasers; jitter; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser modes; laser tuning; CO/sub 2/; TEA CO/sub 2/ laser; TEA CO/sub 2/ laser buildup control; TEA laser cavity; buildup time; fluctuations; injection beam; longitudinal-mode evolution; time jitter; time-gated injection; Chemical lasers; Frequency; Jitter; Laser theory; Masers; Mirrors; Optical control; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-443-2
