Nd:YAG picosecond pulses delivery by cyclic olefin polymer-coated silver hollow glass waveguide

Author

Jelinkova, H. ; Sulc, J. ; Cerny, P. ; Miyagi, Masaya ; Yi-Wei Shi

Author_Institution

Fac. of Nucl. Sci. & Phys. Eng., Czech Tech. Univ., Prague, Czech Republic

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

1016

Abstract

The delivery of short picosecond high-power pulses is highly appreciated in many physical laboratory experiments or in medical and industrial applications. Delivery of high power nanosecond pulses by large core fibers has been already reported, but the picosecond region is still difficult to attain. In our experiment, the delivery of high power and short pulses was proved and pulses with a length of about 50 psec were delivered by specially produced dielectric-coated silver hollow glass waveguides.

Keywords

laser beams; optical films; optical polymers; optical pulse generation; optical waveguides; silver; 50 ps; Nd:YAG picosecond pulses; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; cyclic olefin polymer-coated silver hollow glass waveguide; dielectric-coated silver hollow glass waveguides; high power short pulses; short picosecond high-power pulses; Energy measurement; Glass; Hollow waveguides; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Oscillators; Polymers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Silver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.817949

Filename

817949