• DocumentCode
    1102562
  • Title

    Activ-Passive mode locking of an Nd:phosphate glass laser pusing #5 saturable dye

  • Author

    Goldberg, Lawrence S. ; Schoen, Paul E.

  • Author_Institution
    Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1984
  • fDate
    6/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    628
  • Lastpage
    630
  • Abstract
    An acoustooptic loss modulator and Eastman #5 saturable absorbing dye are used to stably mode lock a TEM00Nd:phosphate glass oscillator. This hybrid approach has enabled reliable generation of ∼ 6 ps duration pulses largely free of occurrences of satellite pulse structure.
  • Keywords
    Dyes; Laser absorbers; Mode locked lasers; Neodymium:glass lasers; Glass; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Pulse modulation; Radio frequency; Satellites; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1984.1072435
  • Filename
    1072435