Title :
Regenerative amplifier with variable pulse width
Author :
Yuxin Leng ; Haihe Lu ; Lihuang Lin ; Wenqi Zhang ; Zhizhan Xu
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Inst. of Opt. & Fine Mech., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
A Nd:glass regenerative amplifier has been set up, in which the bandwidth of the amplified pulse is about 3 nm at 1064 nm. By adjusting the cavity length of regenerative amplifier, the widths of amplified pulse are variable from 300 ps to 3 ns, in case of the /spl sim/300 ps seed pulse.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser transitions; neodymium; solid lasers; 1064 nm; 300 ps; 300 ps to 3 ns; Nd:glass variable pulse width regenerative laser amplifier; amplified pulse; bandwidth; cavity length; ps seed pulse; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Paper technology; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Shape control; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chiba, Japan
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6738-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.970817
