• DocumentCode
    422168
  • Title

    1 MW peak-, 20 W average-power, sub-nanosecond pulse amplifier

  • Author

    Young, York E. ; Snell, Kevin J. ; McCarthy, John C. ; Francis, Michael W. ; Day, Randy C. ; Grasso, Robert J. ; Chicklis, E.P.

  • Author_Institution
    BAE Syst., Information & Electron. Warfare Syst., Nashua, NH
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2004
  • Abstract
    We describe the amplification of sub-nanosecond pulses with peak powers reaching 1 MW using a three-pass diode laser pumped Nd:YVO4 amplifier seeded with the output of a passively Q-switched 1 micron microchip laser
  • Keywords
    Q-switching; high-speed optical techniques; microchip lasers; neodymium; optical pumping; 1 MW; 1 micron; 20 W; YVO4:Nd; passively Q-switched microchip laser; subnanosecond pulse amplifier; three-pass diode laser pumped Nd:YVO4 amplifier;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-777-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1361636