Submillimeter-wave laser operating in a passive Q-switched intracavity pump mode

15 August 1977

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

Vol. 31 (4) , 272-273
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.89658

Abstract

Pulsed operation of submillimeter gas lasers was achieved with the laser gas inside the resonator of the CO₂ pump laser acting as a saturable absorber for passive Q switching the CO₂ laser. With a metal‐oxyde‐metal whisker detector 1–5‐μs‐wide pulses could be detected at 118, 373, and 496 μm wavelength.

Keywords

GAS LASERS
LASER CAVITIES
CAVITY RESONATORS
PULSES
OPTICAL PUMPING
Q−SWITCHING
MODULATION
CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Analytic modeling of gain-switched lasers. I. Laser oscillators
Journal of Applied Physics, 1976
PassiveQswitching of the CO₂laser by C₂H₄gas and CH₃OH vapor
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1970