Single-bar end-pumped picosecond quasi-CW Nd:YAG laser

Author

Agnesi, A. ; Dell´Acqua, S. ; Reali, G.C.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettronica, Pavia Univ., Italy

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

110

Lastpage

111

Abstract

Summary form only given. All-solid-state compact sources of stable, intense picosecond pulses were recently reported, employing nonlinear mirror (NLM) mode-locking. These devices may even become tunable by using parametric amplifiers, and are attractive for several scientific and practical applications, being significantly simpler than traditional oscillator-amplifier systems. We introduce an end-pumped diffraction-limited picosecond Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm with a 5-times improved efficiency with respect to a previous side pumped design, allowed by the development of a cost effective pump geometry, and provide an extensive characterisation of the NLM operation.

Keywords

garnets; laser mode locking; neodymium; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; 1064 nm; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; cost effective pump geometry; nonlinear mirror mode-locking; single-bar end-pumped picosecond quasi-CW Nd:YAG laser; Costs; Diffraction; Geometrical optics; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical design; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.833954

Filename

833954