Mode locking and Q switching of a diode laser pumped neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride laser
- 30 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 54 (5) , 403-405
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.100976
Abstract
We have developed a mode‐locked, diode pumped, neodymium‐doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Nd:YLF) laser operating at 1.053 μm. The laser produces pulses of 18 ps duration at an average power level of 12 mW. When Q switched the duration of the pulse train was 140 ns, giving rise to peak powers of 15 kW.Keywords
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