Pulse-Area-Pulse-Energy Description of a Traveling-Wave Laser Amplifier
- 1 September 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 2 (3) , 861-870
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.2.861
Abstract
The effects of a transverse mode, degeneracy, overlapping transitions, background losses, and transverse population variations are included in an analysis of light-pulse amplification in a system with an inhomogeneously broadened gain profile. Over a wide range of resonant gain and background loss, the steady-state pulse energy is proportional to the inverse cube of the pulse width, in accord with the observations of Frova et al.Keywords
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