• DocumentCode
    1088586
  • Title

    Active-passive mode locking of a flashlamp-pumped dye laser

  • Author

    Burgess, Miles D J ; Fedosejevs, Robert ; Jaanimagi, Paul A. ; Richardson, Martin C.

  • Author_Institution
    National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1981
  • fDate
    4/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    496
  • Lastpage
    500
  • Abstract
    A simple dye laser system for obtaining relatively high energy, synchronized, picosecond pulses is described. The novel combination of active and passive mode locking within a single flashlamp-pumped dye laser cavity produced 2.5 μJ, sub-10 ps pulses capable of being synchronized to an external event with better than 100 ps accuracy. The single pulse energy was subsequently increased to 40 μJ by using a larger twin flashlamp-pumped oscillator.
  • Keywords
    Dye lasers; Mode locked lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser theory; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Pump lasers; X-ray lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1981.1071135
  • Filename
    1071135