Q-switched operation of microchip lasers
Abstract
With a novel Q-switching technique, 6-ns output pulses are produced from a single-mode Nd:YAG microchip laser pumped with 120 mW of CW optical power. Rate-equation analysis indicates that with a pump power of 500 mW, Q-switched Nd:YAG microchip lasers having subnanosecond pulses and peak powers of several kilowatts are feasible. Such miniature Q-switched lasers could find applications in range finding and nonlinear optics.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1364/OL.16.000575
- Bibcode:
- 1991OptL...16..575Z
- Keywords:
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- Lasing;
- Q Switched Lasers;
- Semiconductor Lasers;
- Yag Lasers;
- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Cavities;
- Laser Modes;
- Laser Pumping;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers