HIGH-FREQUENCY ACOUSTOOPTIC MODE LOCKER FOR PICOSECOND PULSE GENERATION

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作者
KELLER, U [1 ]
LI, KD [1 ]
KHURIYAKUB, BT [1 ]
BLOOM, DM [1 ]
WEINGARTEN, KJ [1 ]
GERSTENBERGER, DC [1 ]
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[1] LIGHTWAVE ELECTR CORP,MT VIEW,CA 94043
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10.1364/OL.15.000045
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We modeled, designed, and built a 500-MHz acousto-optic mode locker with a diffraction efficiency of 28% per 1 W drive power. The transducer is zinc oxide sputtered onto a sapphire substrate. A new figure of merit is defined for the mode-locker design, which indicates that sapphire is a good substrate material. Pulse widths of less than 10 psec with an average power of 150 mW were achieved from a 500-MHz pulse-rate, diode-pumped, cw mode-locked Nd:YLF laser using a pump power of 700 mW. © 1990 Optical Society of America.
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