Nanosecond switching, high-contrast Pockels cell with plasma electrodes

Nanosecond switching, high-contrast Pockels cell with plasma electrodes

Summary form only given. High-contrast pulse shaping with divergent light requires a switching element that has large angular acceptance. We used a Pockels cell with a thin crystal and plasma electrodes to demonstrate less than 0.5-ns risetime and >3000:1 contrast for 248-nm light with 6 rad dive...

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Published in:Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics pp. 435 - 436
Main Authors: Pronko, M.S., Deniz, A.V., Yun, V., Goldhar, J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 1996
Subjects:
Electrodes
Foot
Harmonic distortion
Image converters
Laser noise
Optical pulses
Plasmas
Pulse modulation
Shape control
Speckle
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Summary:Summary form only given. High-contrast pulse shaping with divergent light requires a switching element that has large angular acceptance. We used a Pockels cell with a thin crystal and plasma electrodes to demonstrate less than 0.5-ns risetime and >3000:1 contrast for 248-nm light with 6 rad divergence. Symmetric compression of laser fusion pellets requires laser light that uniformly illuminates the pellet with a well controlled temporal pulse shape.
ISBN:1557524432
9781557524430