2-mJ picosecond Nd:YAG slab laser passively Q-switched and mode-locked using multiple quantum well saturable absorbers

Author

Zendzian, Waldemar ; Jabczynski, J.K. ; Kwiatkowski, Jacek ; Kubecek, Vaclav ; Jelinkova, Helena ; Stintz, Andreas ; Diels, Jean-Claude

Author_Institution

Mil. Univ. of Technol., Warsaw

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The multiple-quantum-well mode locking of an oscillator based on single bounce triangle Nd:YAG slab pumped by a 600 W 2D quasi-cw diode laser stack is reported in this paper. Results show a 20 ns long containing only 3 pulses with total energy of 0.65 mJ and a single pulsed duration of 65 ps are generated at a repetition rate of 35 Hz using the absorber with lower initial transmission lines. For the absorber with a higher initial transmission, 2 mJ pulse trains containing 6 pulses with single pulse duration of 87 ps are generated directly from the laser oscillator without any additional amplification.

Keywords

laser beams; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; 2D quasi-cw diode laser stack; Q-switching; YAG:Nd; energy 2 mJ; frequency 35 Hz; mode locking; multiple quantum well saturable absorbers; optical pulse generation; picosecond Nd:YAG slab laser; power 600 W; single bounce triangle slab; transmission lines; Diode lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical pulse generation; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Quantum well devices; Quantum well lasers; Slabs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385868

Filename

4385868