Optically-pumped saturable absorber for fast switching between continuous-wave and passively mode-locked regimes of a Nd:YVO4 laser
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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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.
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Savitski, V.G. ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 14021 |
Keywords: | lasers, neodymium, laser optics, mode-locked lasers, Optics. Light, Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics |
Subjects: | Science > Physics > Optics. Light Science > Physics |
Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics > Institute of Photonics |
Depositing user: | Miss Lisa Flanagan |
Date deposited: | 09 Dec 2009 11:39 |
Last modified: | 23 Jan 2021 02:44 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/14021 |
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