New rapidly relaxing passive shutter for a neodymium-glass laser
Babenko V.A. , Kudinova M.A., Malyshev V.I. , Prokhorov A.M. , Sychev A.A., Tolmachev A.I., Shchelev M.Ya.
We report the development of a passive shutter whose bleached time has a record low value τ =1.5 psec. This shutter has been produced for the first time and ensures stable generation of light pulses of 2 psec duration. Results are reported of investigations of the generation characteristics of a laser with the new passive shutter.