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Diode-Pumped Self-Starting Mode-Locked Nd:YVO4 Laser with Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Output Coupler |
| JIA Yu-Lei1;WEI Zhi-Yi1;ZHENG Jia-An1;LING Wei-Jun1,WANG Yong-Gang2,3;MA Xiao-Yu2;ZHANG Zhi-Gang3 |
| 1Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
2Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083
3Ultrafast Laser Laboratory, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072 |
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JIA Yu-Lei, WEI Zhi-Yi, ZHENG Jia-An et al 2004 Chin. Phys. Lett. 21 2209-2211 |
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Abstract By using a semiconductor saturable-absorber output coupler as a mode-locking device, we experimentally realized the operation of a diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser. Stable laser pulses with duration of 2.3ps were generated at the output power of about 1W. With increasing the pump power to 9 W, the maximum mode-locked power of 1.7 W was obtained, which corresponds to a slope conversion efficiency of 44% and optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 19%.
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42.65.Re
42.60.Fc
42.55.Xi
42.60.Lh
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Published: 01 November 2004
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42.65.Re
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(Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)
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42.60.Fc
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(Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)
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42.55.Xi
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(Diode-pumped lasers)
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42.60.Lh
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(Efficiency, stability, gain, and other operational parameters)
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