MODE-LOCKED PULSE GENERATION IN PASSIVELY SWITCHED LASERS
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 12 (5) , 178-181
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1651942
Abstract
The behavior of a passively switched laser is described by a set of partial differential equations, which are integrated numerically. For short upper‐state lifetimes of the absorbing medium, the calculated output of the laser is a train of narrow pulses. Pulses occur either singly or in multiples during the roundtrip time 2L/c, depending on whether the absorber is near one mirror or at an intermediate position.Keywords
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