Chaotic passive Q-switching pulsation in a N_2O laser with a saturable absorber
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 6 (7) , 1378-1382
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.6.001378
Abstract
A single-mode N2O laser with NH3 as a saturable absorber is found to exhibit chaotic passive Q switching with multipeaked pulses. The chaotic dynamics is strongly correlated with vibrational relaxation mechanism in the laser medium. The phenomenon is predicted, and its characteristic behavior is well explained, by the rate-equation analysis recently developed for the case of instability in CO2 lasers.Keywords
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