Study of saturable absorber switching efficiencies

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DOIResolve DOI: http://doi.org/10.1063/1.1658240
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TypeArticle
Journal titleJournal of Applied Physics
ISSN0021-8979
1089-7550
Volume40
Issue9
Pages3574–3581
Abstract
Theoretical and experimental studies of absorber switching efficiencies are described for a ruby laser operating at 77°K. The various operating regimes of absorber‐switched lasers are reviewed and the importance of inclusion in the theory of nonsaturable losses associated with the laser and absorber media is demonstrated. A particular dye‐host combination is found to have a markedly superior switching efficiency, the essential factor being a low residual loss under saturation conditions. The residual loss of vanadium phthalocyanine is shown to be host dependent and some tentative explanations of this are discussed.
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LanguageEnglish
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NRC numberNRCC 10777
NPARC number23002800
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