Laser cavity passively switched by a saturable absorber and lase

Details Laser cavity passively switched by a saturable absorber and lase Laser cavity passively switched by a saturable absorber and lase

1994-11-14

1996-03-26

Bovernick, Rodney B.

Coherent light generators

Particular beam control device

Q-switch

H01S 3113

Patent

active

055027377

ABSTRACT:
A laser cavity with passive switching by a saturable absorber and a laser incorporating the cavity. The laser cavity has a solid, active material saturable absorber, an entrance mirror and an exit mirror. The saturable absorber is a thin film of saturable absorber material directly deposited on the solid, active medium. The laser incorporates such cavity and a mechanism for pumping the cavity.

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patent: 3270291 (1966-08-01), Kosonocky
patent: 5278855 (1994-01-01), Jacobovitz-Veselka et al.
patent: 5309471 (1994-05-01), Chambaz et al.
Optics Letters, vol. 18, No. 18, Sep. 15, 1993, pp. 1514-1516, Y. Tsou, et al., "Passive Q Switching of Nd:YAG Lasers by use of Bulk Semiconductors".

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