Saturation anisotropy in V:YAG passive Q-switch at 1338 nm

Author

Sulc, J. ; Jelinkova, H. ; Nejezchleb, K. ; Skoda, V.

Author_Institution

FNSPE, Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Yttrium aluminum garnet YAG doped by vanadium ions V³⁺ is a saturable absorber useful for passive Q-switching of lasers operating at wavelengths around 1.3 mum. The topic of this paper was the investigation of nonlinear transmission polarization anisotropy. The goal was to estimate V:YAG saturable absorber orientation in respect to cavity mode polarization to improve Q-switched laser output.

Keywords

Q-switching; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; vanadium; yttrium compounds; YAG:V³⁺; cavity mode polarization; nonlinear transmission polarization anisotropy; passive Q-switching; saturation absorber anisotropy; vanadium ions; wavelength 1338 nm; yttrium aluminum garnet; Absorption; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Laser beam cutting; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Microchip lasers; Optical pulse generation; Polarization; Pump lasers; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5194746

Filename

5194746