• DocumentCode
    2251369
  • Title

    Additional Laser Pulses due to Different Saturation Characteristics of Gain and Absorption in Passively Q-switched Lasers

  • Author

    Park, J.D. ; Cho, C.H. ; Lim, C.H. ; Ko, K.H. ; Kim, D.H. ; Cha, H. ; Kang, Y.I.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Comput. Phys., Pai-Chai Univ., Daejon
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    26-31 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Additional gain, which leads to the generation of secondary pulses 100-200 ns later, can be formed in uniformly pumped passively Q-switched lasers due to different saturation characteristics of gain and absorber.
  • Keywords
    Q-switching; laser beams; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; laser gain saturation characteristics; passively Q-switched laser characteristics; saturable absorber; secondary pulse generation; time 100 ns to 200 ns; uniformly pumped Q-switched lasers; Absorption; Atom optics; Equations; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Pump lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics - Pacific Rim, 2007. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1173-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1174-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2007.4391708
  • Filename
    4391708