Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

Yu et al., 2010 - Google Patents

High repetition rate, high peak power acousto-optical Q-switched 946 nm Nd: YAG laser

Yu et al., 2010

Document ID
15212475046893295058
Author
Yu X
Wang C
Chen F
Yan R
Li X
Peng J
Yu J
Publication year
Publication venue
Laser physics

External Links

Snippet

A diode-end-pumped high repetition rate, high peak power acousto-optical (AO) Q-switched 946 nm Nd: YAG laser was demonstrated in this paper. In our experiments, a 20 mm miniature acousto-optical Q-switch was employed in a 45 mm linear laser cavity for …
Continue reading at link.springer.com (other versions)

Classifications

    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/09—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping
    • H01S3/091—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping
    • H01S3/094—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping by coherent light
    • H01S3/0941—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping by coherent light of a laser diode
    • H01S3/09415—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping by coherent light of a laser diode the pumping beam being parallel to the lasing mode of the pumped medium, e.g. end-pumping
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accomodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/06—Construction or shape of active medium
    • H01S3/063—Waveguide lasers, i.e. whereby the dimensions of the waveguide are of the order of the light wavelength
    • H01S3/067—Fibre lasers
    • H01S3/06754—Fibre amplifiers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accomodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/06—Construction or shape of active medium
    • H01S3/0619—Coatings, e.g. AR, HR, passivation layer
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/10—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating
    • H01S3/106—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating by controlling a device placed within the cavity
    • H01S3/108—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating by controlling a device placed within the cavity using a non-linear optical device, e.g. exhibiting Brillouin- or Raman-scattering
    • H01S3/109—Frequency multiplying, e.g. harmonic generation
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/14—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves characterised by the material used as the active medium
    • H01S3/16—Solid materials
    • H01S3/1601—Solid materials characterised by an active (lasing) ion
    • H01S3/1603—Solid materials characterised by an active (lasing) ion rare earth
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accomodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/06—Construction or shape of active medium
    • H01S3/07—Construction or shape of active medium consisting of a plurality of parts, e.g. segments
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/10—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating
    • H01S3/106—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating by controlling a device placed within the cavity
    • H01S3/1063—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating by controlling a device placed within the cavity using a solid state device provided with at least one potential jump barrier
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/05—Construction or shape of optical resonators; Accomodation of active medium therein; Shape of active medium
    • H01S3/06—Construction or shape of active medium
    • H01S3/0602—Crystal lasers or glass lasers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/10—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating
    • H01S3/11—Pulse generation, e.g. Q-switching, mode locking
    • H01S3/1106—Mode locking
    • H01S3/1112—Passive mode locking
    • H01S3/1115—Passive mode locking using a saturable absorber
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/23—Arrangements of two or more lasers not provided for in groups H01S3/02 - H01S3/22, e.g. tandem arrangements of separate active media
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/30—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves using scattering effects, e.g. stimulated Brillouin or Raman effects
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices for generation, amplification, modulation, demodulation, or frequency-changing, using stimulated emission, of infra-red, visible, or ultra-violet waves
    • H01S3/02—Constructional details
    • H01S3/04—Cooling arrangements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01S—DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION
    • H01S2301/00—Functional characteristics

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
Chen et al. Simultaneous Q-switching and mode-locking in a diode-pumped Nd: YVO/sub 4/-Cr/sup 4+: YAG laser
Gao et al. Pulsed 456 nm deep‐blue light generation by acoustooptical Q‐switching and intracavity frequency doubling of Nd: GdVO4
Gao et al. Diode‐end‐pumped acousto‐optically Q‐switched 914 nm laser and the pulsed blue light generation by intracavity frequency doubling
Schellhorn et al. High-energy Ho: LLF MOPA laser system using a top-hat pump profile for the amplifier stage
Yu et al. Comparison of electro-optical and acousto-optical Q-switched, high repetition rate Nd: GdVO 4 laser
Qi et al. High-energy, nanosecond orange laser at 604 nm based on Pr: YLF crystal at room temperature
Zou et al. 980 nm Yb-doped single-mode fiber laser and its frequency-doubling with BIBO
Ma et al. Highly efficient H-β Fraunhofer line optical parametric oscillator pumped by a single-frequency 355 nm laser
Chen et al. Efficient generation of 914 nm laser with high beam quality in Nd: YVO4 crystal pumped by π‐polarized 808 nm diode‐laser
Kwiatkowski et al. Continuous-wave and high repetition rate Q-switched operation of Ho: YLF laser in-band pumped by a linearly polarized Tm: fiber laser
Yu et al. High repetition rate, high peak power acousto-optical Q-switched 946 nm Nd: YAG laser
Yu et al. Diode‐laser‐pumped high efficiency continuous‐wave operation at 912 nm laser in Nd: GdVO4 crystal
Chen et al. 8.9-W continuous-wave, diode-end-pumped all-solid-state Nd: YVO 4 laser operating at 914 nm
Yang et al. A compact passively Q-switched intra-cavity frequency doubled Nd: YAG/Cr 4+: YAG composite crystal green laser
Wang et al. Single-frequency and free-running operation of a single-pass pulsed Ho: YLF amplifier
Du et al. 3.1 W laser-diode-end-pumped composite Nd: YVO 4 self-Raman laser at 1176 nm
Zhang et al. A compact high power laser-diode side-pumped Tm, Ho: YAG laser nearly at room temperature with intracavity Tm: YAG laser
Du et al. High power Q-switched intracavity sum-frequency generation and self-Raman laser at 559 nm
Yu et al. High power diode-pumped 914-nm Nd: YVO4 laser
Chen et al. Diode-pumped short pulse passively Q-switched 912 nm Nd: GdVO 4/Cr: YAG laser at high repetition rate operation
Aman et al. Operation of electro-optically Q-switched Nd: LuAG laser at 1064 nm
Deng et al. High-power Nd: GdVO4 Innoslab continuous-wave laser under direct 880 nm pumping
Zuo et al. Multi-Watt Simultaneous Orthogonally Polarized Dual-Wavelength Pulse Generation of an Intracavity Nd: YLF/YVO 4 Raman Laser
Chen et al. LD pumped passively Q-switched ceramic Nd: YAG 946 nm laser with a high peak power output
Wu et al. A diode-pumped actively Q-switched and injection-seeded Tm: LuAG laser at room temperature