Abstract
It is well known that passive Q-switching (PQS) occurs in a CO2 laser when a gaseous saturable absorber is introduced into the laser cavity. We observed a peculiar undulation, superposed on the quasi-cw tail of the PQS pulse using HCOOH gas as a saturable absorber (Fig. 1).
© 1986 Optical Society of America
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