Performance of Gain-Switched Ti:Al2O3 Unstable-Resonator Lasers. (Reannouncementwith New Availability Information)

摘要

We describe an experimental investigation of Ti:Al2O3 unstable-resonator lasers.A near-diffraction-limited output of 430 mJ in a 10-nsec pulse at 10 Hz has been obtained, which is to our knowledge the highest peak power from a Ti:Al2O3 laser reported. We report results for both standing-wave and traveling-wave oscillators, demonstrating line narrowing by of prism tuning and injection seeding.