56-ps passively Q-switched diode-pumped microchip laser
- 15 March 1997
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 22 (6) , 381-383
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.22.000381
Abstract
We passively switched a diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 microchip crystal with an antiresonant Fabry–Perot saturable absorber and achieved single-frequency pulses as short as 56 ps. We can vary the pulse width from 56 ps to 30 ns and the repetition rate from 27 kHz up to 7 MHz by changing the design parameters of the saturable absorber and the pump power.
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