Magnus Bengtsson

Director of Strategic Marketing, Coherent

[email protected]https://www.coherent.com

Magnus Bengtsson is Director of Strategic Marketing at Coherent (Santa Clara, CA).

FIGURE 1. Cavity loss, stored energy, and output power are plotted as a function of time in a Q-switched laser cavity (bottom); the dashed vertical lines denote one cycle of the process, which results in a single laser pulse. This cycle typically lasts anywhere from about 10 μs to 1 ms. The production of a Q-switched pulse is depicted at top.

Lasers & Sources

SOLID-STATE LASERS: Laser pulsing: The nuts and bolts of Q-switching and modelocking

Marco Arrigoni

June 1, 2012

Two versatile pulsing technologies—Q-switching and modelocking—are the basis of most commercial pulsed lasers in use today, for applications ranging from medical imaging and diagnostics...