BACKGROUND ENERGY CONTENT OF MODE-LOCKED LASER PULSES

1 February 1971

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 18 (3) , 69-70
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1653568

Abstract

Amplified isolated mode‐locked pulses from a Nd: glass laser were measured to have a signal‐to‐noise ratio greater than 10⁴: 1. It is concluded that less than 5% of the laser's total energy output is emitted in the intervals between the subnanosecond pulses, and that there is no nanosecond shoulder on the leading edges of the subnanosecond pulses.

Keywords

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:

Subnanosecond laser pulses for plasma production
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1970
OPTICAL THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION USING MODE-LOCKED AND NONMODE-LOCKED LASERS
Applied Physics Letters, 1969
Picosecond laser pulses
Proceedings of the IEEE, 1969