56-PS PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED DIODE-PUMPED MICROCHIP LASER

Authors
BRAUN B KARTNER FX ZHANG G MOSER M KELLER U
Citation
B. Braun et al., 56-PS PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED DIODE-PUMPED MICROCHIP LASER, Optics letters, 22(6), 1997, pp. 381-383
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
22
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
381 - 383
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1997)22:6<381:5PQDML>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
We passively Q switched a diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 microchip crystal with an antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber and achieved single-fre quency pulses as short as 56 ps. We can vary the pulse width from 56 p s to 30 ns and the repetition rate from 27 kHz up to 7 MHz by changing the design parameters of the saturable absorber and the pump power. ( C) 1997 Optical Society of America.