ALL-SOLID-STATE TUNABLE ULTRAVIOLET SUBNANOSECOND LASER WITH DIRECT PUMPING BY THE 5TH HARMONIC OF A ND-YAG LASER

Authors
SARUKURA N LIU ZL IZUMIDA S DUBINSKII MA ABDULSABIROV RY KORABLEVA SL
Citation
N. Sarukura et al., ALL-SOLID-STATE TUNABLE ULTRAVIOLET SUBNANOSECOND LASER WITH DIRECT PUMPING BY THE 5TH HARMONIC OF A ND-YAG LASER, Applied optics, 37(27), 1998, pp. 6446-6448
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
37
Issue
27
Year of publication
1998
Pages
6446 - 6448
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1998)37:27<6446:ATUSLW>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
We report what we believe is the first all-solid-state tunable ultravi olet laser pumped by the fifth harmonic of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. Our laser based on a Ce3+:LiLuF4 active medium stably generates a sing le, satellite-free, 0.88-ns pulse under 5-ns, 10-Hz repetition rate pu mping conditions. A novel tilted-incident-angle side-pumping scheme re sulted in a simple laser-cavity design. (C) 1998 Optical Society of Am erica.