Temporal SBS compression of Q-switched pulses with fused-quartz glass

Author

Yoshida, H. ; Fujita, H. ; Nakatsuka, T. ; Fujinoki, A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Laser Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

330

Abstract

The SBS substance of quartz glass was investigated. This study reported a SBS compressor of fused-quartz glass. The fused-quartz glass can be used as a phase conjugator for a high-peak energy lasers instead of the gaseous or liquid SBS materials. Further, the merits of bulk glasses as phase conjugating media are their compactness, harmlessness and easiness of handling. The laser used in experiments was a linearly polarized Q-switched Nd:YAG oscillator at single-frequency and TEM₀₀ mode operation. The amplified output was a 8-ns pulse of about 500 mJ at a 10-Hz repetition rate.

Keywords

Q-switching; neodymium; optical glass; optical phase conjugation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; quartz; solid lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; yttrium compounds; 500 mJ; 8 ns; Nd:YAG oscillator; Q-switched pulses; SiO₂; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; fused-quartz glass; gaseous SBS material; high-peak energy laser; linear polarisation; liquid SBS material; phase conjugator; temporal SBS compression; Gas lasers; Glass; Laser modes; Optical materials; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Reflectivity; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7734-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312391

Filename

1312391