Diode-end-pumped passively mode-locked high-power Nd : YVO4 laser with a relaxed saturable Bragg reflector

Authors
Chen, YF Tsai, SW Lan, YP Wang, SC Huang, KF
Citation
Yf. Chen et al., Diode-end-pumped passively mode-locked high-power Nd : YVO4 laser with a relaxed saturable Bragg reflector, OPTICS LETT, 26(4), 2001, pp. 199-201
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
01469592 → ACNP
Volume
26
Issue
4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
199 - 201
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(20010215)26:4<199:DPMHN:>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We demonstrate a high-power passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser that uses a saturable Bragg reflector (SBR) with strain relaxation. 23.5 W of average power with similar to 21.5-ps cw mode-locked pulse trains was generated at a 50-W pump power. Experimental results show that appropriate strain relaxa tion in the SBR makes the mode-locking operation less sensitive to temperat ure variation. (C) 2001 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 140.3530, 14 0.3580, 140.4050, 140.7090, 160.6000.