EYESAFE PULSED MICROCHIP LASER USING SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERMIRRORS

Authors
FLUCK R HARING R PASCHOTTA R GINI E MELCHIOR H KELLER U
Citation
R. Fluck et al., EYESAFE PULSED MICROCHIP LASER USING SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERMIRRORS, Applied physics letters, 72(25), 1998, pp. 3273-3275
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
72
Issue
25
Year of publication
1998
Pages
3273 - 3275
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1998)72:25<3273:EPMLUS>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We passively e-switched a diode-pumped Er/Yb:glass microchip laser at a 1.535 mu m wavelength using semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors and demonstrated pulses as short as 1.2 ns. By varying the design par ameters of the saturable absorber, the pump power, and the pump spot s ize, we achieved repetition rates from 300 Hz to 100 kHz with pulse en ergies up to 4 mu J. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-69 51(98)03725-5].