Shortening of Free-running XeCl Laser Pulses by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Modern Optics
- Vol. 39 (9) , 1829-1836
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09500349214551911
Abstract
A stimulated Brillouin scattering mirror has been used to ‘temporally tune’ from nanoseconds to subnanoseconds the width of laser pulses generated by a free running XeCl oscillator, equipped with a super-Gaussian reflectivity unstable resonator. Pulse shortening techniques by stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and by truncated SBS have been investigated. A maximum pulse shortening of about fifty has been achieved by truncated SBS.Keywords
This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
- Generation of high peak power excimer laser radiation by pulse shorteningApplied Physics B Laser and Optics, 1990
- KrF laser system with corrected pulse front and compressed pulse durationApplied Physics B Laser and Optics, 1989
- Generation of KrF laser pulses on a picosecond time scale using electro-optic modulationOptics Letters, 1989
- High current, small divergence electron beams produced by laser-induced surface photoelectric effectJournal of Applied Physics, 1989
- Application of a phase-conjugate Brillouin mirror to generation of high-quality variable-duration KrF pulsesIEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1989
- 120-ps duration pulses by active mode locking of an XeCl laserJournal of Applied Physics, 1988
- Simplified laser system for the generation of 60 fs pulses at 248 nmOptics Communications, 1988
- Shortening of KrF* laser pulses using stimulated Brillouin scatteringOptics Letters, 1987
- Short pulses from excimer lasersJournal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments, 1987
- Shortening of excimer laser pulses with saturable absorbersOptics Communications, 1984