DIODE-PUMPED PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED PICOSECOND MICROCHIP LASERS

Authors
ZAYHOWSKI JJ DILL C
Citation
Jj. Zayhowski et C. Dill, DIODE-PUMPED PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED PICOSECOND MICROCHIP LASERS, Optics letters, 19(18), 1994, pp. 1427-1429
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
19
Issue
18
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1427 - 1429
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1994)19:18<1427:DPQPML>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Passively Q-switched 1.064-mu m microchip lasers have been constructed from thin pieces of Nd3+:YAG bonded to thin pieces of Cr4+:YAG. When pumped with the unfocused 1.2-W output of a fiber-coupled diode, these devices produced 11-mu J pulses of 337-ps duration at a pulse repetit ion rate of 6 kHz in a single-frequency TEM(00) mode. The peak power o f the lasers was in excess of 28 kW, with unfocused peak output intens ities exceeding 180 MW/cm(2).