Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 7, Issue 9, 812(2009)

20-kHz watt-level green laser with LGS crystal electro-optic Q-switch

Hao Tang, Xiaolei Zhu, Junqing Meng, and Huaguo Zang
Author Affiliations
  • Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Key Laboratory of All Solid-State Laser and Applied Techniques, Shanghai 201800, China
  • show less

    A diode-end-pumped electro-optic (EO) Q-switched green laser operating at the repetition rate of 20 kHz is reported. A block of La<sub>3</sub>Ga<sub>5</sub>SiO<sub>14</sub> (LGS) single crystal is used as a Q-switch and the type I phase-matching LiB<sub>3</sub>O<sub>5</sub> (LBO) is used as the nonlinear crystal in the second harmonic generation. The 2.3-Waverage power of 532-nm green laser is obtained at the repetition rate of 20 kHz with the pulse width as short as 10 ns. When the output power is about 1.5 W, the measured power fluctuation is less than 1.4% (root-mean-square, RMS) with the beam quality factor of M<sup>2</sup><2 in both orthogonal directions.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Hao Tang, Xiaolei Zhu, Junqing Meng, Huaguo Zang, "20-kHz watt-level green laser with LGS crystal electro-optic Q-switch," Chin. Opt. Lett. 7, 812 (2009)

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Received: Dec. 15, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 22, 2009

    The Author Email:

    DOI:10.3788/COL20090709.0812

    Topics