Pound-Drever-Hall frequency stabilization of Q-switched solid state laser oscillators in the Sub-MHz range
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ostermeyer, Martin; Strasser, Alexander
- Source
- 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2008
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Frequency
Solid lasers
Oscillators
Optical resonators
Optical pulse generation
Laser stability
Optical pulses
Optical ring resonators
Laser radar
Ring lasers
(140.3580) Lasers solid state
(140.3480) Lasers diode-pumped
(140.3380) Laser materials
- Language
Frequency stabilization of Q-switched laser oscillators following a Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method is demonstrated for a dual rod Nd:YAG oscillator. It emits pulses of 21mJ pulse energy at 400Hz repetition rate with stability better 1MHz.