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Time-resolved beam structure of an active Q-switched ruby laser
1Australian Defence Scientific Service,Defence Standards Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia.
Applied Optics
|January 12, 2010
Abstract:
Time-resolved observations show that the near field and far field patterns of an active Q-switched ruby laser remain almost constant for the duration of the output pulse. This is in marked contrast to the reported behavior of a passive Q-switched laser.

