Title :
Flip-flop polarization effect in cube-corner-flat cavity Nd:YAG laser
Author :
M. Lukac;S. Trost;M. Kazic
Author_Institution :
ISKRA-Electrooptics, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Abstract :
A polarization effect in Nd:YAG leading to mutually orthogonal polarizations of two successive passive Q-switch laser pulses in a flashlamp pumped cube-corner-flat-cavity laser is reported. The polarization memory in optically isotropic Nd:YAG crystal is attributed to local Nd/sup 3+/ site symmetry selection rules.
Keywords :
"Flip-flops","Pump lasers","Optical pulses","Neodymium","Optical polarization","Laser modes","Laser excitation","Laser tuning","Optical pumping","Optical scattering"
Journal_Title :
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
