Talk:Q-switching
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Even with pulse-pumped lasers (such as flashlamp-pumped) you use a Q-switch to reduce the length of the pulse (You pump it for several milliseconds, then use the q-switch to get a pulse of only 10-50ns or much shorter). Talking about it in only the context of CW lasers is misleading. JohnFlux 14:45, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Too Technical
This article is too technical. I'm a college educated person and I find several things are totally unexplained in this article. Some examples:
used in a double pass manner to half its thickness (Active Q-switching section). Excuse Me?
distinguish between ingoing and outgoing pulses. What ingoing pulse?
What is 'Jitter' (Variants section)?
Crusty007 20:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Paragraph removed
I removed the following from the active q-switching section. It is unclear, and doesn't really seem to concern active Q-switching per se, but rather other applications such as cavity dumping, regenerative amplification, etc.--Srleffler 22:41, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Three cavity configurations are possible. One device in the middle of the cavity would allow to couple pulses to two different ports. More often the device is placed near one end mirror and is used in a double pass manner to half its thickness. If one needs to be able to now distinguish between ingoing and outgoing pulses an external Faraday isolator (second possibility) or switch (third possibility) is added.
