PICOSECOND PULSE AMPLIFICATION USING A COPPER VAPOR LASER uri icon

abstract

  • A high repetition amplification scheme for picosecond pulses has been developed using a copper vapor laser. Pulses of <5 ps full width at half-maximum duration and 0.7 nJ energy from a synchronously pumped mode-locked dye laser have been amplified up to 50 J. This technique offers an attractive means for the generation of stable, high repetition 5 kHz picosecond pulses which can be used advantageously for spectroscopic and Raman studies.

published proceedings

  • APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • HOPKINS, J. B., & RENTZEPIS, P. M.

citation count

  • 12

complete list of authors

  • HOPKINS, JB||RENTZEPIS, PM

publication date

  • October 1985