Selection of an optimal saturable absorber for YAG lasers in the passive mode-locking regime
Abstract
Various lasing conditions, including stable passive mode locking, multispiking operation, and free lasing alternating with multispiking, are examined in the light of a study of more than 90 passive shutters, such as solutions of polymethine dyes, polymethine dyes in a solid matrix, and alkali-halide crystals with Z-centers. The polymethine dyes which produce maximum output power when used as passive shutters in YAG lasers are identified.
- Publication:
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Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii
- Pub Date:
- October 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984ZhPS...41..566D
- Keywords:
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- Crystal Optics;
- Laser Mode Locking;
- Photoabsorption;
- Yag Lasers;
- Alkali Halides;
- Dye Lasers;
- Laser Materials;
- Laser Outputs;
- Lasers and Masers