Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 37, Issue 8, 1925(2010)

Cavity Dumping of a Mode Locked Nd:YAP Laser Working at 1341 nm

Wang Sha1,2、*, Chen Jun1, Ge Jianhong1, Liu Chong1, and H. J.2
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    A laser diode (LD) end pumped active- and passive- mode locked Nd:YAP laser at 1341 nm is reported. A Nd:YAP laser crystal is used as gain material. A saturable absorber V3+:YAG is used for passive mode locking and an acousto-optical modulator (AOM) is used for active mode locking. The output pulse train with a total energy of 0.82 mJ is obtained under the conditions of pump energy of 50 mJ and frequency of 10 Hz. The full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) is measured as 570 ns. The pulse repetition period is 7.7 ns. There are around 75 pulses in the pulse train,and each pulse has an average energy of about 11 μJ. An opto-electronic RbTiOPO4 (RTP) crystal works as a cavity dumper. A single pulse of 160 μJ with pulse duration of 680 ps is obtained. The laser beam diameter is measured as 1.2 mm and the beam propagation factor M2 is around 1.5 by using an InGaAs infrared detector.

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    Wang Sha, Chen Jun, Ge Jianhong, Liu Chong, H. J.. Cavity Dumping of a Mode Locked Nd:YAP Laser Working at 1341 nm[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2010, 37(8): 1925

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    Received: Dec. 21, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 13, 2010

    The Author Email: Sha Wang (anskina@hotmail.com)

    DOI:10.3788/cjl20103708.1925

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