YANG Cheng-Wei1, HUO Yu-Jing1, HE Shu-Fang1, YIN Xiao-Dong1, ZHANG Bao-Shun2
1Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
2State Laboratory on high Power Semiconductor Lasers, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022
Controllable Passively Q-Switched Laser
YANG Cheng-Wei1;HUO Yu-Jing1;HE Shu-Fang1;YIN Xiao-Dong1;ZHANG Bao-Shun2
1Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
2State Laboratory on high Power Semiconductor Lasers, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022
Abstract： We present a novel kind of pulsed laser named controllable passively Q-switched laser (CPQL). A CPQL of Nd:YVO4 with Cr:YAG as saturable absorber was demonstrated and studied as an example of the kind of pulsed lasers. In CPQL, as the actively controlling signal, a diode laser beam was focused onto the saturable absorber in the resonant cavity of the passively Q-switched laser (PQL) and was absorbed by the absorber to realize the active control of the CPQL. The characters of the CPQL output laser pulses, such as generation time, repetition rate, pulse width, peak power and energy per pulse, can be controlled by the operator. The CPQLs possess the advantages of both passively Q-switched laser and actively Q-switched laser. Because of their compactness, low cost and controllability, the CPQLs will find wide applications in many fields.
2005, Vol. 22 
