Abstract

Highly efficient compression of laser pulses down to 1 nsec in duration by stimulated Brillouin scattering has been demonstrated. Compression ratios of ~10 and energy-conversion efficiencies >70% have been produced. Several including the use of tapered waveguides, long-focal-length geometries, compressor systems have been investigated, and generator–amplifier systems.

© 1983 Optical Society of America

Phase conjugation and pulse compression of KrF-laser radiation by stimulated Raman scattering

I. V. Tomov, R. Fedosejevs, D. C. D. McKen, C. Domier, and A. A. Offenberger
Opt. Lett. 8(1) 9-11 (1983)

High-efficiency stimulated Brillouin scattering of KrF laser radiation in SF₆

I. V. Tomov, R. Fedosejevs, and D. C. D. McKen
Opt. Lett. 9(9) 405-407 (1984)

Pulse compression by stimulated Brillouin scattering

David T. Hon
Opt. Lett. 5(12) 516-518 (1980)

Highly efficient, high-quality phase-conjugate reflection at 308 nm using stimulated Brillouin scattering

E. Armandillo and D. Proch
Opt. Lett. 8(10) 523-525 (1983)

Reliable stimulated Brillouin scattering compression of Nd:YAG laser pulses with liquid fluorocarbon for long-time operation at 10 Hz

Viliam Kmetik, Henryk Fiedorowicz, Alexander A. Andreev, Klaus J. Witte, Hiroyuki Daido, Hisanori Fujita, Masahiro Nakatsuka, and Tatsuhiko Yamanaka
Appl. Opt. 37(30) 7085-7090 (1998)