Compact and efficient Nd:YVO 4 laser that generates a tunable single-frequency green output.

Autor: Friel GJ; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK. g.j.friel@hw.ac.uk, Kemp AJ, Lake TK, Sinclair BD
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Applied optics [Appl Opt] 2000 Aug 20; Vol. 39 (24), pp. 4333-7.
DOI: 10.1364/ao.39.004333
Abstrakt: We demonstrate 250 mW of single-frequency 532-nm output from a simple intracavity-doubled Nd:YVO(4) laser, pumped with 1.2 W from a fiber-coupled diode laser. The laser can be frequency chirped smoothly over approximately 17 GHz while maintaining a single-frequency green output of greater than 200 mW. A short Fabry-Perot cavity is used, and single-frequency operation is enforced by means of a birefringent filter that utilizes the birefringence of both the KTP doubling crystal and the Nd:YVO(4) laser crystal with polarization-dependent loss from a glass Brewster plate combined with polarization-dependent gain from the laser crystal.
Databáze: MEDLINE