Use of the SBS mirror in excimer laser cavity

Author

Losev, V.F. ; Panchenko, Yu.N.

Author_Institution

Inst. of High-Current Electron., Acad. of Sci., Tomsk, Russia

fYear

2000

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2000

Abstract

Summary form only given. Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is used widely for phase-conjugation of laser beams in systems consisting of a master oscillator and amplifier. However, in such case two laser are needed, which complicates considerably the assembly of an optical system as well as its use. It would be interest to investigate the possibility of formation of high quality radiation directly in a laser with a nonlinear mirror. We will report the results of an experimental investigations of an XeCl laser with cavity formed by a semitransparent output mirror and SBS medium. Electric-discharge laser with plane-plane cavity produced the radiation pulse with duration 120 ns (FWHM) and 100 nJ energy. The different optics schemes and SBS mediums were used in our experiments.

Keywords

excimer lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; optical phase conjugation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; xenon compounds; 100 nJ; 120 ns; XeCl; electric discharge laser; excimer laser cavity; optical phase conjugation; plane-plane cavity; semitransparent nonlinear mirror; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Assembly systems; Brillouin scattering; Laser beams; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Oscillators; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6319-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909897

Filename

909897