Optical Generation of Intense Picosecond Electrical Pulses
- 15 May 1972
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 20 (10) , 398-399
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1653991
Abstract
Electrical pulses, 4 A in 10 psec, have been generated by rectification of 1.06‐μm pulses in LiTaO3: Cu++. Their amplitude and duration were measured by photographing the birefringence induced by the pulses propagating along an electro‐optic transmission line illuminated transversely in a Pockel's cell arrangement. The principal mechanism responsible for the generation is the macroscopic polarization resulting from the difference in dipole moment between the ground and excited states of the absorbing Cu++ impurities.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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