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8 September 1999 LD-pumped Cr4+:Nd3+:YAG self-Q-switched laser
Jun Chen, Zhi Hong, Jianhong Ge, Wenfa Qiu, Chengfang Bao, Xiuping Wang
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Proceedings Volume 3862, 1999 International Conference on Industrial Lasers; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.361180
Event: International Symposium on Industrial Lasers, 1999, Wuhan, China
Abstract
Using a LD as the pumping source in the CW mode and pulsed mode, we have got the self Q-switched laser in the co-doped Cr4+:Nd3+:YAG laser microchip with 2 mm thickness. When the LD operated in cw mode, the output laser is self Q-switched due to the saturable absorption of the Cr4+ center. Using the cw pumping laser of 3.3 W, the output laser of 3.86 mW operated in the quasi-CW mode with the repetition rate of 13 KHz and the pulse width of 40 ns was obtained. Using the pulsed pumping with 100 Hz repetition rate and 5 ms pulse width, the laser pulse series with several sub-pulses is obtained.
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Jun Chen, Zhi Hong, Jianhong Ge, Wenfa Qiu, Chengfang Bao, and Xiuping Wang "LD-pumped Cr4+:Nd3+:YAG self-Q-switched laser", Proc. SPIE 3862, 1999 International Conference on Industrial Lasers, (8 September 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.361180
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KEYWORDS
Pulsed laser operation

Continuous wave operation

Optical pumping

Q switched lasers

Crystals

Laser crystals

Laser damage threshold

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