Picosecond High-Voltage Photoconductive Switching,

Abstract

We report on the generation of 850 V electrical pulses with 1.4 ps rise time and 4 ps Full-Width-at-Half-Maximum using pulse biased Low-Temperature-grown GaAs photoconductive switch triggered by an amplified femtosecond dye laser. Dependence of the temporal pulse shape on both the electric field and the optical energy is observed and discussed.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1992
Accession Number
ADP007639

Entities

People

  • G. Mourou
  • John Nees
  • S. Williamson
  • T. Motet

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Dye Lasers
  • Electric Fields
  • Electronics
  • Femtosecond Time
  • High Voltage
  • Lasers
  • Liquid Dye Lasers
  • Liquid Lasers
  • Low Temperature
  • Optoelectronics
  • Picosecond Time
  • Switches
  • Switching
  • Voltage

Fields of Study

  • Materials science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy