Reduction of timing jitter in a passive Q-switched solid state laser
US8446925B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 29, 2010 |
| Grant date | May 21, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 29, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01S3/1643
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method and device for reducing the timing jitter in a passive Q-switched Nd:YAG solid state laser by spatially selective bleaching a thin sheet of a saturable absorber of Cr+4:YAG from a direction orthogonal to the direction of laser emission where the Cr+4:YAG transmission increases 18% when the bleaching probe beam is a single laser diode bar. For steady state operation of a passive Q-switched laser, the pulse-to-pulse timing jitter showed a −12× reduction in standard deviation from 241 nsec for free running operation to 20 nsec with optical triggering.
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