Nd:phosphate glass mode-locked oscillator and amplifier system
Abstract
The amplification and selection of single picosecond pulses generated by a mode-locked oscillator-amplifier laser system with Kigre Q-88 phosphate glass laser rods were measured. The oscillator and amplifier media were doped with 3.3% and 2.2% Nd, respectively. Energy measurements were obtained by using a Hadron thermopile and a micro-volt meter. A pulse of 100-mJ 6-ps was easily generated; however, it was found that at this high pulse energy the output face of the phosphate amplifier was susceptible to damage, apparently from dust particles settling on the rod surface.
- Publication:
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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- June 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1109/JQE.1979.1070045
- Bibcode:
- 1979IJQE...15..406L
- Keywords:
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- Laser Mode Locking;
- Light Amplifiers;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Phosphates;
- Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers;
- Laser Damage;
- Laser Outputs;
- Particle Motion;
- Thermopiles;
- Lasers and Masers