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Solid state laser

Authors :
Rines, Glen A
Moulton, Peter F
Harrison, James
Publication Year :
1993
Publisher :
United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1993.

Abstract

A wavelength-tunable, injection-seeded, dispersion-compensated, dispersively-pumped solid state laser includes a lasing medium; a highly reflective mirror; an output coupler; at least one isosceles Brewster prism oriented to the minimum deviation angle between the medium and the mirror for directing light of different wavelengths along different paths; means for varying the angle of the highly reflective mirror relative to the light from at least one Brewster angle for selecting a predetermined laser operating wavelength; a dispersion compensation apparatus associated with the lasing medium; a laser injection seeding port disposed between the dispersion compensation apparatus and one of the mirror and coupler and including a reflective surface at an acute non-Brewster angle to the laser beam for introducing a seed input; a dispersion compensation apparatus associated with the laser medium including opposite chirality optical elements; the lasing medium including a pump surface disposed at an acute angle to the laser beam to define a discrete path for the pumping laser beam separate from the pumped laser beam.

Subjects

Subjects :
Lasers And Masers

Details

Language :
English
Database :
NASA Technical Reports
Notes :
NAS1-18457
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsnas.20080005949
Document Type :
Report