Title : 
Picosecond pulses, TEM00mode, mode-locked ruby laser
         
        
            Author : 
Cubeddu, Rinaldo ; Polloni, R. ; Sacchi, Claudio ; Svelto, O.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Istituto di Fisica del Politecnico, Milano, Italy
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
9/1/1969 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Picosecond pulses with a single transverse-mode operation have been obtained in a mode-locked ruby laser by using a special rooftop prism cavity. Addition of rhodamine 6G to the dye (DDI in methanol) enabled us to obtain consistently pulses as short as 5 ps.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Absorption; Cryptography; Electron tubes; Laser mode locking; Methanol; Neodymium; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Production; Pulse measurements;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/JQE.1969.1076291