• DocumentCode
    1143863
  • Title

    Alkali metal vapor Q switches for synchronizing mode-locked laser pulse trains with external events

  • Author

    Sorokin, P.P. ; Lankard, J.R.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1972
  • fDate
    10/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    813
  • Lastpage
    814
  • Abstract
    Capacitive discharges in cesium vapor and rubidium vapor are used to realize externally controllable Q switches for synchronizing the appearance of pulse trains from passively mode-locked neodymium-glass and ruby lasers with other events occurring on a microsecond time scale.
  • Keywords
    Absorption; Frequency synchronization; Gas lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical pulses; Pulsed laser deposition; Ring lasers; Switches; Temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1972.1076866
  • Filename
    1076866
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1143863