pump frequency

The frequency of an oscillator used to provide sustaining power to devices, such as lasers and parametric amplifiers, that require radio frequency (rf) sinusoidal or pulsed power. Note: Pumps usually are designed to provide resonant frequencies to raise power levels in the devices they pump energy into. See also amplifier, energy, frequency, laser, oscillator, parametric amplifier, population inversion, power, power level, pulse, pumping, radio frequency, resonance, resonant frequency, sine wave, sinusoidal function.