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Erbium active elements with a slit stop

Byshevskaya-Konopko, L.O., Gubin, A.B., Izyneev, A.A., Pirozhkov, Y.B., Sadovskiy, P.I.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Бышевская-Конопко Л.О., Губин А.Б., Изынеев А.А., Пирожков Ю.Б., Садовский П.И. Эрбиевые активные элементы со щелевой диафрагмой // Оптический журнал. 2014. Т. 81. № 4. С. 21–25.

Byshevskaya-Konopko L.O., Gubin A.B., Izyneev A.A., Pirozhkov Yu.B., Sadovskiy P.I. Erbium active elements with a slit stop [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2014. V. 81. № 4. P. 21–25.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

L. O. Byshevskaya-Konopko, A. A. Izyneev, P. I. Sadovskiĭ, A. B. Gubin, and Yu. B. Pirozhkov, "Erbium active elements with a slit stop," Journal of Optical Technology. 81(4), 182-185 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.81.000182

Abstract:

This paper proposes a method for improving the quality of the pulse generated by an erbium laser by means of a slit stop formed in the active element. It presents results obtained for a radiator with diode pumping, operating in a wide range of pulse-repetition rates from single pulses to 10 Hz.

Keywords:

erbium laser, eye-safe pulsed rangefinder

OCIS codes: 140.3500, 160.3380

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