Savitski, V.G. and Burns, D. and Calvez, S. (2009) Optically-pumped saturable absorber for fast switching between continuous-wave and passively mode-locked regimes of a Nd:YVO4 laser. Optics Express, 17 (7). pp. 5373-5378. ISSN 1094-4087
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.005373
Abstract
We report on the fast (~50 μs) remote-controlled switching between continuous-wave (cw), cw mode-locked (ML) and Q-switched ML modes of operation of a Nd:YVO4 laser using an optically-pumped saturable absorber (SA). Pulses as short as 40 ps with an average output power of 0.5 W are obtained in cw ML regime.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 14021 |
| Keywords: | lasers, neodymium, laser optics, mode-locked lasers, Optics. Light, Physics |
| Subjects: | Science > Physics > Optics. Light Science > Physics |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Photonics |
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| Depositing user: | Miss Lisa Flanagan |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2009 11:39 |
| Last modified: | 12 Dec 2012 00:29 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/14021 |
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