All-solid-state diode and end-pumped Nd:YAG laser passively Q-switched by Cr4+:YAG saturable absorber

Nicolaie A. Pavel; Jiro Saikawa; Ichiro Shoji; Traian Dascalu; Voicu Lupei; Takunori Taira

doi:10.1117/12.582805

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21 October 2004 All-solid-state diode and end-pumped Nd:YAG laser passively Q-switched by Cr⁴⁺:YAG saturable absorber

Nicolaie A. Pavel, Jiro Saikawa, Ichiro Shoji, Traian Dascalu, Voicu Lupei, Takunori Taira

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Proceedings Volume 5581, ROMOPTO 2003: Seventh Conference on Optics; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.582805
Event: ROMOPTO 2003: Seventh Conference on Optics, 2003, Constanta, Romania

Abstract

A diode end-pumped Nd:YAG laser passively Q-switched by Cr⁴⁺:YAG saturable absorber and intracavity frequency-doubled by a LBO nonlinear crystal is described. Using a linear cavity the maximum average power at 1.06-μm fundamental wavelength was 3.3 W, 22.5 kHz repetition rate and 25.2-ns pulses duration. The maximum peak power was 12 kW for an average power of 1.8 W, laser pulses of 17.5-ns duration and 209.3-μJ energy. Intracavity frequency-doubling employing a V-type laser resonator yielded 532-nm green pulses of 226-μJ energy and 86-ns width at 4.2-kHz rate of repetition. The theoretical calculations based on a model of rate of equations show good agreement with the experiments at both fundamental and second-harmonic wavelengths.

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Nicolaie A. Pavel, Jiro Saikawa, Ichiro Shoji, Traian Dascalu, Voicu Lupei, and Takunori Taira "All-solid-state diode and end-pumped Nd:YAG laser passively Q-switched by Cr⁴⁺:YAG saturable absorber", Proc. SPIE 5581, ROMOPTO 2003: Seventh Conference on Optics, (21 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.582805

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