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Passively Q-switched laser operation in a composite Nd:YVO4/Nd:YVO4/Nd:YVO4 crystal with a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber

Sat, 2011-12-03 18:48 — Guest

Abstract  
By using a piece of single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber, the performance of the passively Q-switched composite
Nd:YVO4 laser has been demonstrated for the first time. The maximum average output power and the shortest pulse width are 1220 mW
and 103 ns at the incident pump power of 5.04 W for a 10% transmission of the output coupler. The highest pulse repetition
rate of 415.6 kHz and the largest single-pulse energy of 2.94 μJ are also obtained. The composite Nd:YVO4 crystal has more excellent laser performance than the normal Nd:YVO4 crystal at 1064 nm.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Solid State and Liquid Lasers
  • Pages 1-4
  • DOI 10.1134/S1054660X1201029X
  • Authors
    • L. Yin, School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 China
    • G. Q. Li, School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 China
    • S. Z. Zhao, School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 China
    • X. Li, School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 China
    • K. Cheng, School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 China
    • G. Zhang, School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 China
    • Y. G. Wang, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, China
    • Journal Laser Physics
    • Online ISSN 1555-6611
    • Print ISSN 1054-660X

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