Fast rise time, long pulse width, kilohertz repetition rate Q-switch driver.
We describe a versatile Pockels cell Q-switch driver that can generate high voltage electrical pulses having both fast rise times and long duration, with a repetition rate in excess of 1 kHz. The circuit is simple and easily adaptable to most types of Q-switched lasers and regenerative amplifiers.
Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia. thomas.rutten@adelaide.edu.au
Thomas P
TP
Rutten
Neville
N
Wild
Peter J
PJ
Veitch
D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012666:Semiconductors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*