Title :
High stability, single frequency 136ps laser pulse generation based on stimulated Brillouin scattering
Author :
Xuehua Zhu ; Zhiwei Lu ; Yulei Wang ; Xiwen An ; Mu Li
Author_Institution :
Nat. Key Lab. of Sci. & Technol. on Tunable Laser, Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
Abstract :
We obtained a single-frequency laser pulse with energy of 300-mJ and duration of 136-ps based on stimulated Brillouin scattering using an 8-ns pulse width Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The achieved pulse duration stability is about 4.1%.
Keywords :
Q-switching; laser stability; neodymium; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Q-switched solid:YAG laser; YAG:Nd; energy 300 mJ; high-stability laser pulse generation; single-frequency laser pulse generation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; time 136 ps; time 8 ns; Brillouin scattering; Energy conversion; Laser excitation; Laser stability; Pump lasers; Thermal stability;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
