Development and Fabrication of a YAG Laser System for Study of Mode Locking and Pulse Coding Laser Output.

Abstract

A special purpose, high repetition rate Nd:YAG laser system has been designed, developed and fabricated for use in experiments in mode locking and pulse coding. The system consists of a laser transmitter, power supply and cooler. The transmitter is a mechanically stabilized, 1 meter long optical cavity with a flash-pumped single cavity oscillator using a 1/4 in. x 2 in. Nd:YAG crystal, a KD callita prime P Pockels cell, and a 150 MHz mode-locking modulator cell. The system was successfully tested up to a repetition rate of 50 pps and a 100 nanosecond Q-switched output of 130 millijoules. Mode-locked pulses were measured at 0.8 nanoseconds. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0732229

Entities

People

  • Lorand J. Wargo

Organizations

  • RTX

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cells
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Fabrication
  • Lasers
  • Modulators
  • Nanosecond Time
  • Optical Equipment
  • Optical Modulators
  • Optoelectronic Devices
  • Optomechanics
  • Pockels Cells
  • Power Supplies
  • Repetition Rate
  • Transmitters
  • Yag Lasers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy