EFFICIENT ALL-SOLID-STATE TUNABLE SOURCE BASED ON A PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED HIGH-POWER ND-YAG LASER

Authors
AGNESI A PICCININI E REALI GC SOLCIA C
Citation
A. Agnesi et al., EFFICIENT ALL-SOLID-STATE TUNABLE SOURCE BASED ON A PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED HIGH-POWER ND-YAG LASER, Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics, 65(2), 1997, pp. 303-305
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied",Optics
Journal title
Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
09462171
Volume
65
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
303 - 305
Database
ISI
SICI code
0946-2171(1997)65:2<303:EATSBO>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
A compact and efficient diode-pumped high power passively Q-switched N d:YAG laser has been used to pump an optical parametric oscillator (OP O) employing periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN). The OPO exhibi ts a threshold as low as 6.9 mu J, generates 30-ns pulses with energy of 31.7 mu J (pump-to-signal conversion efficiency approximate to 30%, pump depletion approximate to 78%) at a 3.8-kHz repetition rate, and is tunable from 1.46 to 1.56 mu m