Title :
Design principles for excited state absorptive limiters
Author_Institution :
Logicon RDA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
31 Oct-3 Nov 1994
Abstract :
Optimal design of limiters based on excited state absorption calls for near complete depopulation of the ground state together with the maintenance of fluences below the damage level at all points in the device. The specific nonuniform molecular concentrations required to satisfy these conditions are described
Keywords :
excited states; damage level; design principles; excited state absorption; excited state absorptive limiters; ground state; near complete depopulation; optical design; optimal design; specific nonuniform molecular concentrations; Absorption; Attenuation; Heating; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Signal design; Solids; Stationary state;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1994. LEOS '94 Conference Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1470-0
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1994.586327
