Title :
Diode-pumped 40-GHz passively mode-locked Nd: YVO/sub 4/ laser with 288-mW average output power
Author :
Lecomte, S. ; Paschotta, R. ; Golling, M. ; Keller, U. ; Ebling, D. ; Ohgoh, T. ; Hayakawa, T.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Quantum Electr., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
We present a diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:YVO/sub 4/ laser with a repetition rate as high as 40 GHz. The laser generates 288 mW of average output power in 6.5-ps pulses at a wavelength of 1064 nm.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; neodymium; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; solid lasers; 1064 nm; 288 mW; 40 GHz; 6.5 ps; YVO/sub 4/ :Nd; diode pumping; optical pulse generation; passively mode-locked Nd: YVO/sub 4/ laser;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
