Evaluation of CaLaSOAP: Nd for high-power flash-pumped Q-switched lasers
- 15 August 1974
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 25 (4) , 220-222
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1655447
Abstract
Pump‐induced thermal lensing and bifocusing have been measured for flash‐pumped CaLaSOAP:Nd, together with long‐pulse and Q‐switched laser efficiencies. The results show that CaLaSOAP:Nd maintains its high efficiency in the Q‐switched mode, that it is capable of average power operation exceeding 1 J at 30 pps, and that bifocusing is less severe in CaLaSOAP:Nd than in YAG:Nd.Keywords
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