High-power picosecond laser transmitter with highly stable switching delay

Sergey N. Vainshtein; Andrey V. Maslevtsov; Juha Tapio Kostamovaara

doi:10.1117/12.418831

9 March 2001 High-power picosecond laser transmitter with highly stable switching delay

Sergey N. Vainshtein, Andrey V. Maslevtsov, Juha Tapio Kostamovaara

Proceedings Volume 4354, Laser Optics 2000: Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Communication; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.418831
Event: Laser Optics 2000, 2000, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Abstract

A compact laser diode based transmitter was designed and tested for laser radar and various laboratory applications. Single optical pulses with a peak power of up to 200 W, 23 - 65 ps pulse duration and a repetition rate of up to 50 kHz were measured. Transient mode spectral filtering suppressed afterpulsing modes by a factor of 10⁴ - 10⁵ with respect to the peak power. A control module was developed which provided a jitter value between electrical triggering and the optical pulses as low as 14 ps. Averaging of 10³ events allows 1.5 ps stability between the triggering and the optical pulses to be achieved within a delay range from 5 to 250 ns.

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Sergey N. Vainshtein, Andrey V. Maslevtsov, and Juha Tapio Kostamovaara "High-power picosecond laser transmitter with highly stable switching delay", Proc. SPIE 4354, Laser Optics 2000: Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Communication, (9 March 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.418831

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