OBSERVATION OF PICOSECOND PULSES FROM A Nd:YAG LASER
- 15 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 12 (8), 275-277
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1651990
Abstract
Ultrashort pulses are observed in the output of a Pockel's cell Q‐switched, pulsed Nd:YAG laser. This result suggests that self‐locking effects occur in Nd:YAG lasers and that the output of such lasers may, in general, be composed of many picosecond pulses.Keywords
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