Injection mode-locked, Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 1319 nm
Injection mode-locked, Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 1319 nm
There is currently no laser source that can provide both efficient excitation of mesospheric sodium and allow removal of the effects of guide-star elongation, as required for multi-conjugate adaptive optics in next-generation extremely large telescopes. We describe a Q-switched 1319 nm Nd:YAG laser that is mode-locked by injecting a short pulse into the Q-switched laser. It produces Q-switched mode-locked pulses that are synchronized to an external source. We also discuss how such pulses at 1064 nm and 1319 nm can be used to generate pulsed sodium-resonant guide stars via sum frequency generation, and thus satisfy the above requirements.
Injection mode-locked, laser guide star, Nd:YAG, Q-switched
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Simakov, Nikita
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Hosken, David J.
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Hamilton, Murray W.
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Munch, Jesper
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Veitch, Peter J.
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July 2010
Simakov, Nikita
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Hosken, David J.
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Hamilton, Murray W.
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Munch, Jesper
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Veitch, Peter J.
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Simakov, Nikita, Hosken, David J., Hamilton, Murray W., Munch, Jesper and Veitch, Peter J.
(2010)
Injection mode-locked, Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 1319 nm.
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 46 (7), .
(doi:10.1109/JQE.2010.2043501).
Abstract
There is currently no laser source that can provide both efficient excitation of mesospheric sodium and allow removal of the effects of guide-star elongation, as required for multi-conjugate adaptive optics in next-generation extremely large telescopes. We describe a Q-switched 1319 nm Nd:YAG laser that is mode-locked by injecting a short pulse into the Q-switched laser. It produces Q-switched mode-locked pulses that are synchronized to an external source. We also discuss how such pulses at 1064 nm and 1319 nm can be used to generate pulsed sodium-resonant guide stars via sum frequency generation, and thus satisfy the above requirements.
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Published date: July 2010
Keywords:
Injection mode-locked, laser guide star, Nd:YAG, Q-switched
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Local EPrints ID: 415564
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/415564
ISSN: 0018-9197
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Nikita Simakov
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David J. Hosken
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Murray W. Hamilton
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Jesper Munch
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Peter J. Veitch
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