Accession Number:

ADA230680

Title:

Computer Model of an Injection Locked Pulsed CO2 Laser

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Susie, Allen M.

Report Date:

1990-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

69.0

Abstract:

With the discovery of the laser there have been continual attempts to increase the spectral brightness of a laser for applications such as signal processing and lidar. To this end techniques using either passive or active cavity elements have been developed to isolate a single longitudinal mode in both continuous and pulsed laser systems. Although passive elements have useful applications in continuous systems their use in pulsed systems is difficult to control. The injection of an external signal has proved very successful.

Descriptors:

• *PULSED LASERS
• *COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• OPTICAL RADAR
• PASSIVE SYSTEMS
• CAVITIES
• CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS
• SIGNAL PROCESSING
• SPECTRA
• PULSES
• SIGNALS
• EXTERNAL
• BRIGHTNESS

Subject Categories:

• Lasers and Masers

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE