Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 29, Issue 7, 1898(2009)

400 Hz All-solid-state Sum-Frequency Sodium Guidestar Laser

Lu Yanhua*, Liu Dong, Zhang Lei, Ma Yi, Tang Chun, and Wang Weimin
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    A 400 Hz repetition rate, 1.52 W average power diode-pumped all-solid-state narrow linewidth sodium guide star laser was reported. Two acousto-optic Q-swithed 1064 m and 1319 nm lasers were used as basic-frequency lasers and they generated 589nm sodium guide star laser through a extra-cavity sum-frequency generation(SFG) LBO crystal. The master-slave drivers mode and the electronics delay compensation technology were employed to make the two Q-pulses time-synchronization. The conversion efficiency of SFG was about 25.1% and the electro-optical efficiency was 0.32%. To lock the central wavelength to the sodium D2a line,an etalon with water cooling was inserted into the 1064 nm oscillator.The central wavelength finally aimed at 589.159 nm(error less than ±1 pm) by tuning the temperature and angle of the etalon.

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    Lu Yanhua, Liu Dong, Zhang Lei, Ma Yi, Tang Chun, Wang Weimin. 400 Hz All-solid-state Sum-Frequency Sodium Guidestar Laser[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2009, 29(7): 1898

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    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Oct. 21, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jul. 20, 2009

    The Author Email: Yanhua Lu (happyeleo@yahoo.com.cn)

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