High-energy short-pulse diode-pumped Nd:YVO/sub 4/ laser and its applications for material sciences and biomedical imaging

Author

Petrov, G.I. ; Yakovlev, V.V. ; Minkovski, N.I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Wisconsin Univ., Milwaukee, WI, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

6-6 June 2003

Abstract

We demonstrate a very inexpensive high-energy picosecond laser oscillator, which is easy to maintain and to use for variety of applications ranging from pulsed laser deposition to advanced biomedical imaging. The described system should be also capable for efficient pumping of high-energy parametric oscillators and even parametric amplifiers to produce broadly tunable high-energy sub-picosecond IR pulses. Picosecond high-power diode-pumped solid state lasers are particular important because of their numerous applications in medicine and material processing.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser applications in medicine; neodymium; optical parametric amplifiers; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; pulsed laser deposition; solid lasers; vanadium compounds; yttrium compounds; Nd:YVO/sub 4/ laser; YVO/sub 4/:Nd; biomedical imaging; efficient pumping; high-energy parametric oscillator; high-energy picosecond laser oscillator; high-energy short-pulse diode-pump; material processing; material sciences; parametric amplifier; pulsed laser deposition; solid state laser; sub-picosecond IR pulse; Biomedical imaging; Diodes; Materials processing; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Pulsed laser deposition; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-748-2

Type

conf

Filename

1298309