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Appl Opt
; 46(34): 8358-63, 2007 Dec 01.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18059680
RESUMO
An injection seeded Nd:YAG laser oscillator has been set up and frequency stabilized following an rf-sideband scheme. This dual rod oscillator emits pulses with 23 ns duration and 20 mJ energy. The beam quality is almost diffraction limited (M(2)=1.2). The frequency stability was characterized with a heterodyne method to 1.0 MHz root mean square (rms). This oscillator will serve as the front end for a series of lidar devices for spectrally sensitive measurements.