HIGH-REPETITION-RATE Q-SWITCHED DIODE-PUMPED ND-YAG LASER AT 1.444 MU-M

Authors
AGNESI A DELLACQUA S PENNACCHIO C REALI G GOBBI PG
Citation
A. Agnesi et al., HIGH-REPETITION-RATE Q-SWITCHED DIODE-PUMPED ND-YAG LASER AT 1.444 MU-M, Applied optics, 37(18), 1998, pp. 3984-3986
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
37
Issue
18
Year of publication
1998
Pages
3984 - 3986
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1998)37:18<3984:HQDNLA>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A diode-pumped Q-switched Nd:YAG laser that operates at the eye-safe 1 444 nm wavelength has been developed. When pumped by a 10-W fiber-coup led array at 808 MI, it generated 1 W in cw operation and 560 mW at 20 -kHz repetition rate with active Q-switching. Design issues such as th ermal lensing characterization and beam quality are discussed. (C) 199 8 Optical Society of America.