Low-threshold and highly efficient diode-pumped cw passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser with a saturable Bragg reflector

Jingliang He; Jie Liu; Juan Du; Jimin Yang; Baoyuan Man

doi:10.1117/1.2042327

1 September 2005 Low-threshold and highly efficient diode-pumped cw passively mode-locked Nd:YVO₄ laser with a saturable Bragg reflector

Jingliang He, Jie Liu, Juan Du, Jimin Yang, Baoyuan Man

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 44, Issue 9, 094201 (September 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2042327

Abstract

We report a diode-end-pumped 1064-nm Nd:YVO₄ laser passively cw mode-locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. We designed a long cavity with relatively small mode size in the gain medium so that stable passive mode locking without Q-switching instabilities became possible under low pump power. At 2.42 W of pump power a mode-locked fundamental-mode average output power of 742 mW was attained with an overall optical-optical efficiency of 31%. The pulse duration was 9.1 ps as measured at the repetition rate of 58 MHz.

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Jingliang He, Jie Liu, Juan Du, Jimin Yang, and Baoyuan Man "Low-threshold and highly efficient diode-pumped cw passively mode-locked Nd:YVO₄ laser with a saturable Bragg reflector," Optical Engineering 44(9), 094201 (1 September 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2042327

Published: 1 September 2005

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