Measurement Of Pulsed Laser Power

Excerpt from Measurement of Pulsed-Laser Power We describe calibrating several Optical-pulse power meters to an accuracy of about 82 or better. The meters are designed for Q-switched neodymium lasers with peak powers in excess of a few megawatts and pulses longer than five or ten nanoseconds. Combined with a fast oscilloscope or a transient digitizer, the meters display the time-domain waveform of the laser emission and thereby allow determination of Parameters such as transition duration (risetime, falltime), duration and peak power. We discuss calibrating the meters by both pulsed and cw methods, and show why each method is useful as a check on the other. We treat in some detail the effect of speckle on the use of diffusers as attenuators in power-meters such as ours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Calorimeters for measuring the output energy of pulsed ruby and neodymium glass lasers have been built and calibrated.The absorbing medium is an aqueous solution of CuSO4. Calibration of *laser energy detectors has an estimated uncertainty of plus or minus 2% for input energies of 0.1J to 100J.Instrumentation is described that is used for the calibration of cw laser power meters.The calibration unit employs an absorption cell calorimeter to calibrate the output of a photovoltaic cell transfer detector.The calibrations are within an accuracy of 4%.A discussion and description is also given of several types of calorimeters that have been used to measure the output of a 100 watt CO2 laser.The most recent design provides for measurement from 1 watt to 5 kilowatts with a measured accuracy of better than 3%.(Author).

This book gives the readers an introduction to experimental and theoretical knowledge acquired by large-scale laser laboratories that are dealing with extra-high peak power and ultrashort laser pulses for research of terawatt (TW), petawatt (PW), or near-future exawatt (EW) laser interactions, for soft X-ray sources, for acceleration of particles, or for generation of hot dense thermal plasma for the laser fusion. The other part of this book is dealing with the small-scale laser laboratories that are using for its research on commercial sources of laser radiation, nanosecond (ns), picosecond (ps), or femtosecond (fs) laser pulses, either for basic research or for more advanced applications. This book is divided into six main sections dealing with short and ultrashort laser pulses, laser-produced soft X-ray sources, large-scale high-power laser systems, free-electron lasers, fiber-based sources of short optical pulse, and applications of short pulse lasers. In each chapter readers can find fascinating topics related to the high energy and/or short pulse laser technique. Individual chapters should serve the broad spectrum of readers of different expertise, layman, undergraduate and postgraduate students, scientists, and engineers, who may in this book find easily explained fundamentals as well as advanced principles of particular subjects related to these phenomena.