Dumping out a single qualified Q-switch pulse from a self-injected solid laser and its application on nonlinear optics

Author

Dounan Zhuang ; Pichet Limsuwan ; Guiqiu Yu ; Xiaodong Zhuang

Author_Institution

SIOFM, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Shanghai, China

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

15-19 July 2001

Abstract

A new technique called self-injection is a low-cost, fairly simple method to improve the performance of commercial Q-switched (QS) or mode-locked (ML) pulsed laser. The principle of self-injection can be briefly explained: by electro-optically (E-O) modulating the cavity losses, for example, by a E-O QS it is possible to create, just after the QS laser action has started, a coherent seed pulse shorter than the usual QS output that can be created in the space between the E-O and the output coupler.

Keywords

Q-switching; electro-optical modulation; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical losses; solid lasers; cavity losses; electro-optically modulating; nonlinear optics; output coupler; self-injected solid laser; single qualified Q-switch pulse dumping; Electrooptic modulators; Laser applications; Laser mode locking; Lasers and electrooptics; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical losses; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Chiba, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6738-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.970815

Filename

970815