A Bidirectional, Diode-Pumped, Passively Mode-Locked Nd:YVO<SUB>4</SUB> Ring Laser with a Low-Temperature-Grown Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror

A Bidirectional, Diode-Pumped, Passively Mode-Locked Nd:YVO₄ Ring Laser with a Low-Temperature-Grown Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror

¹Institute of Laser and Optoelectronics, School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072 ²Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083 ³Institute of Quantum Electronics, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871

Received Date: November 09, 2006

Published Date: April 30, 2007

Abstract

We report the operation of a bidirectional picosecond pulsed ring Nd:YVO₄ laser based on a low-temperature-grown semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. Except for the laser crystal, the six-mirror ring laser cavity has no intra-cavity elements such as focusing lens or mirror. The bidirectional mode locked pluses are obtained at the repetition rate of 117.5MHz, pulse duration of 81ps, power of 2×200mW.

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