We report our first experimental demonstration of an all-fiber true-time-delay (TTD) system integrated into our free-space laser-communication laboratory breadboard. Using far-field interference fringes at the target to monitor both temporal and spatial coherence, we demonstrated optical beam steering over nearly ±40° FOV with our high-bandwidth TTD system (i.e., 2.7-ps optical pulses at 10 GHz repetition frequency). The planar output aperture of the optical beam-steering device has an overall aperture-diameter of ~4 cm, while the TTD architecture utilized piezo fiber-stretcher components for low-cost, efficient programmable time-delay performance.
A multi-fiber network is shown to provide programmable time delays so that an ensemble of pulselets can be temporally synchronized over a large field-of-view, leading to high-bandwidth, multi-aperture beam-steering systems, including MEMS and liquid crystal arrays.
New faster detection systems have allowed better measurements of complex fluorescence decays for active ions in laser crystal materials. We have measured a fluorescence decay that shows a fast initial decay followed by a non- exponential behavior that cannot be described satisfactory by most standard models for nonradiative energy transfer process. With current models it is customary to consider three characteristic temporal stages for the luminescent decay: (1) an exponential decay that is described by the first order approximation of the corresponding model at very short times, (2) a non-exponential decay described by the model at intermediate times, and (3) an exponential decay at later times determined by the migration excitation among donor ions. A new model is presented to account for the donor transient with no temporal stages. The master equations are solved in an analytical and exact form. This modeling allows us to consider any sum of interactions to drive the direct energy transfer. The discreetness of the crystal lattice is not neglected and it is taking into account the actual random distribution of activators around each donor. By using our modeling we are able to predict the measured fluorescence decay of the 4F3/2 state of the Nd+3 in Nd(1.5%),Er(20%):YSGG.
We report 0.95 kW average output power from a single cw-diode pumped Yb:YAG power oscillator. The 3-mm diameter solid-state laser rod is side pumped by three sets of cw diode arrays each of which has an electrical-to-optical efficiency of up to 50%. Our phase-conjugate master oscillator, power-amp architecture will incorporate this pump cavity as one of the power amplifiers for multi-kW average power, good beam quality laser applications.
Analytical closed-form expressions for the pumping efficiency, passive loss, and the effective emission cross section are derived for threshold lasing in homogeneously broadened four-level laser media. These expressions are discussed with respect to existing discrepancies in the literature. The analytical results are applied to threshold-lasing measurements in flashlamp-pumped Cr:Nd:GSAG and Cr:Nd:YSGG as compared to Cr:Nd:GSGG.
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