By Jeff Hecht

Now absolutely up-to-date and increased to supply info at the newest lasers, optical units, and methods, The Laser Guidebook-2nd version positive aspects precise insurance of the exploding box of semiconductor lasers, in addition to up-to-date chapters on: Laser conception and rules, fuel lasers, and extra.

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Typically, operating frequencies are chosen so the ratio of cavity-dumping frequency to modelocked pulse generation equals an integer plus one-half, say, 9½.

Pulse repetition rates also vary widely. Ruby and neodymium-glass lasers can generate only a few pulses per second, while copper vapor can produce several thousand and semiconductor lasers can pulse over a billion times a second [one gigahertz (GHz)]. Cavity dumping can produce tens of thousands of pulses a second, while modelocking can generate pulses at gigahertz repetition rates. Efforts are under way to increase repetition rates as a way to increase average power from certain lasers. Pulse repetition rate, duration, and peak power can be adjusted by a variety of laser accessories, such as Q switches, modelockers, and cavity dumpers, described in Chap.

The signal and idler frequencies are determined by the orientation of the crystal and the design of the oscillator cavity in complex ways that are of less relevance to users of parametric amplifiers than to designers of such systems (Svelto, 1989). What the user sees is output—the signal wave—that is continuously tunable in wavelength by adjusting the nonlinear crystal and/or the optical cavity. The existence of a resonant optical cavity makes parametric oscillators superficially similar to lasers, and like lasers they generate coherent beams.

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