Frequency stabilization of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser oscillator with stability better 300 kHz following an rf- sideband scheme
- A frequency stabilization scheme following the Pound-Drever-Hall technique modified with a sample and hold circuit has been applied to a Q-switched diode-pumped Nd:YAG ring oscillator. The high-power ring is injection seeded by a monolithic non-planar ring laser oscillator (NPRO). The slave oscillator emits pulses of 23 ns duration and 20 mJ pulse energy with almost diffraction limited beam quality (M-2 = 1.2) at a repetition rate of 400 Hz. The short-term fluctuation of the center frequency from pulse to pulse is 290 kHz. The oscillator is designed for applications within lidar measurements.
| Author details: | Martin Ostermeyer, Thomas Waltinger, Markus Gregor |
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| URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00304018 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2009.04.063 |
| ISSN: | 0030-4018 |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2009 |
| Publication year: | 2009 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/25 |
| Source: | Optics communications. - ISSN 0030-4018. - 282 (2009), 16, S. 3302 - 3307 |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
