Scaling and passively Q-switch operation of a Nd:YAG laser pumped laterally through a YAG prism
| Autor: | N. Pavel, Mihai P. Dinca, Traian Dascalu, O. Sandu, Gabriela Salamu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Materials science
business.industry Slope efficiency Saturable absorption Laser pumping Laser Q-switching Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials law.invention X-ray laser Optics law Nd:YAG laser Diode-pumped solid-state laser Optoelectronics Electrical and Electronic Engineering business |
| Zdroj: | Optics & Laser Technology |
| ISSN: | 0030-3992 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.optlastec.2014.10.017 |
| Popis: | We report on scaling of a laser configuration in which a YAG prism is used to couple the pump beam from a fiber-coupled diode laser directly into a Nd:YAG medium. Several resonator geometries have been investigated. In free generation regime laser pulses at 1.06 μm with energy of 22.1 mJ for the pump energy of 44.6 mJ were obtained from a 10.0 mm long, 1.0-at% Nd:YAG single crystal that had the high-reflectivity mirror coated directly on one of the laser crystal surface. The slope efficiency was 0.51. A similar uncoated Nd:YAG crystal placed in a plane–plane resonator delivered laser pulses with 17.8 mJ energy under the pump with 45.4 mJ energy, at 0.40 slope efficiency. Further, a passively Q-switched Nd:YAG/Cr 4+ :YAG composite ceramic laser pumped through a YAG prism has been built. Using a Cr 4+ :YAG saturable absorber of 0.85 initial transmission the device delivered laser pulses with 0.29 mJ energy and 11 ns duration. The output performances are compared to those obtained in a classical end-pumping scheme. |
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