Pump-probe switching in Cr:forsterite lasers

R. T. White; I. T. McKinnie; N. L. Moise

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1997),
paper QThC5

Pump-probe switching in Cr:forsterite lasers

R. T. White, I. T. McKinnie, and N. L. Moise

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference 1997

Baltimore, Maryland United States
18–23 May 1997
ISBN: 1-55752-501-3

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Nonlinear Optical Effects: 1 (QThC)

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R. T. White, I. T. McKinnie, and N. L. Moise, "Pump-probe switching in Cr:forsterite lasers," in Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, J. Bokor, R. Slusher, P. Bucksbaum, and R. Falcone, eds., Vol. 12 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1997), paper QThC5.

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Abstract

This investigation was motivated by the recent observation of an interesting energy storage-extraction process in a gain-switched laser under dual pulse pumping.¹ We believe that this process, which we term pump-probe switching,² may be applicable to optical switching.

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