Q switching of a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser with GaAs

被引：164

作者：

Kajava, TT

Gaeta, AL

机构：

[1] Sch. of Appl. and Eng. Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca

[2] Department of Technical Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, FIN-02150 Espoo

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 1996年 / 21卷 / 16期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.21.001244

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We investigated the properties of a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser that is passively Q switched by a thin, single-crystal GaAs wafer. At 3 W of incident pump power, the laser produced stable 7-ns pulses with 20 mu J of energy at a 6-kHz repetition rate. For pump powers up to 2.2 W, which resulted in 13.2-mu J pulses, the output mode was TEM(00). The shortest pulses that we observed were 3 ns in duration. In addition to saturable absorption, we find that two-photon absorption and free-carrier effects determine pulse formation. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：1244 / 1246

页数：3

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