Title :
Timing-jitter reduction of passively Q-switched laser by a reentrant 2-mirror ring cavity
Author :
Huang, P.L. ; Cheng, H.Z. ; Huang, S.L.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract :
Summary form only given.Passive Q-switching has shown to be a compact and efficient expedient to generate high-peak-power laser pulses. We use a novel reentrant 2-mirror ring cavity for the passive Q-switching system. The ring cavity effectively reduces the spontaneous noise influence upon the saturable absorber. Especially, under uni-directional operation the timing jitter is largely reduced to 3%.
Keywords :
Q-switching; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser noise; optical saturable absorption; ring lasers; timing jitter; high-peak-power laser pulse generation; passive Q-switching system; passively Q-switched laser; reentrant 2-mirror ring cavity; ring cavity; saturable absorber; spontaneous noise; timing jitter; timing-jitter reduction; uni-directional operation; Laser transitions; Microchip lasers; Neodymium; Optimized production technology; Polarization; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Solid lasers; Timing jitter;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-634-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2000.907238
