Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 3, 031406(2023)
Subharmonic mode locking of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser
Fig. 1. Laser circuit. M1 and M2, cavity mirrors; AOM, acousto-optic modulator; Nd:YAG, active element; 0, zeroth-order diffraction beam; 1, first-order diffraction beam.
Fig. 2. Oscillograms of the output laser radiation at kd ≈ 7%. (a) ΔL = 0, (b) ΔL = 80 µm.
Fig. 3. Oscillogram of a lasing pulse at a wavelength of 1.064 µm in QML mode. The division along the abscissa axis is 20 ns.
Fig. 5. Schematic of a setup for obtaining superluminescent generation tunable in the 620 nm region. 1, Nd:YAG pump laser; 2, collimator; 3, focusing lens; 4, PPLN crystal (50 mm length, polarization period 29.5 µm, ee-e phase synchronism); 5, selective mirror (HR at 3200-3850 nm, HT at 1050–1700 nm); 6, focusing lens; 7, LBO crystal (15 mm length, Θ = 90°, φ = 0°, ee-o synchronism); 8, prism (TF10); 9, diaphragm; 10 and 11, measuring equipment.
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Alexey Gribanov, Mikhail Yakovin, Dmitry Yakovin, Mikhail Mosin, "Subharmonic mode locking of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 031406 (2023)
Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics
Received: Aug. 29, 2022
Accepted: Oct. 13, 2022
Published Online: Nov. 9, 2022
The Author Email: Alexey Gribanov (gribanov84@mail.ru), Mikhail Yakovin (m.d.yakovin@mail.ru)