Marconi, Mario Carlos, authorMartinez, Oscar Eduardo, authorDiodati, Francisco Piero, authorAmerican Institute of Physics, publisher2015-07-282015-07-281980Marconi, Mario Carlos, Oscar Eduardo Martinez, and Francisco Piero Diodati, Reliable Passive Mode Locking with Slow Q Switching, Applied Physics Letters 37, no. 8 (15 October 1980): 684-685.http://hdl.handle.net/10217/2116An electro-optic modulator (EOM) has been added to a passive mode-locked Nd:glass laser in order to slow Q-switch the cavity. This guarantees that the laser will work near threshold even if the gain of the laser medium or the losses change from shot to shot. The losses at the EOM are used as the output coupling. This new configuration allows more reliable operation of the system.born digitalarticleseng©1980 American Institute of Physics.Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.mode lockingswitchingreliabilityoptical effectmodulationneodymium lasersglasslaser cavitiesgainlossesconfigurationexperimental dataText