Intracavity doubled mode-locked and CW diode-pumped lasers

Author

Marshall, Larry R. ; Hays, Alan D. ; Kaz, A. ; Burnham, R.L.

Author_Institution

Fibertek Inc., Herndon, VA, USA

Volume

28

Issue

4

fYear

1992

fDate

4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1158

Lastpage

1163

Abstract

A CW-diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser producing 12.5 W of multimode output at 1.064 μm is described. Mode locking and intracavity doubling produced 3 W of output at 0.532 μm with an amplitude stability better than ±1% rms. Up to 2.8 W at 0.532 μm was obtained when the laser was run CW without mode locking. Stabilities equal to those obtained from the mode-locked laser were observed from the CW laser by axially rotating either the laser rod or KTP doubling crystal into a fixed relative orientation

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical harmonic generation; potassium compounds; solid lasers; 0.532 micron; 1.064 micron; 12.5 W; 3 W; CW diode-pumped lasers; IR; KTiOPO₄; Nd:YAG laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; amplitude stability; axially rotating; doubling crystal; fixed relative orientation; intracavity doubling; laser rod; mode-locked; mode-locked laser; multimode output; Diodes; Frequency modulation; Holography; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Neodymium; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.135241

Filename

135241