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Title: Repetitive Q-switching of a CW Nd:YAG laser using Cr{sup 4+}:YAG saturable absorbers

Abstract

Repetitive Q-switching of a CW pumped Nd:YAG laser using a Cr{sup 4+}:YAG saturable absorber was achieved for the first time, providing pulses 80--300 ns wide (FWHM) with repetition rates ranging between 2 and 29 kHz. Different ranges of repetition rates and pulse widths are obtained by using absorbers of different optical densities. Satisfactory quantitative description of the experimental results is obtained by a full numerical solution of the system rate equations according to the theory of Powell and Wolga. These equations involve the dynamics of the laser population inversion, the absorber state population, and the photon density in the laser cavity.

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  1. Nuclear Research Center-Negev, Beer-Sheva (Israel)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
218513
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 32; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q-SWITCHING; ALUMINIUM OXIDES; FERRITE GARNETS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LASER MATERIALS; CHROMIUM IONS; LASER RADIATION; DOPED MATERIALS

Citation Formats

Shimony, Y, Burshtein, Z, Ben-Amar Baranga, A, Kalisky, Y, and Strauss, M. Repetitive Q-switching of a CW Nd:YAG laser using Cr{sup 4+}:YAG saturable absorbers. United States: N. p., 1996. Web. doi:10.1109/3.481878.
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Shimony, Y, Burshtein, Z, Ben-Amar Baranga, A, Kalisky, Y, & Strauss, M. Repetitive Q-switching of a CW Nd:YAG laser using Cr{sup 4+}:YAG saturable absorbers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/3.481878
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Shimony, Y, Burshtein, Z, Ben-Amar Baranga, A, Kalisky, Y, and Strauss, M. Thu . "Repetitive Q-switching of a CW Nd:YAG laser using Cr{sup 4+}:YAG saturable absorbers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/3.481878.
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@article{osti_218513,
title = {Repetitive Q-switching of a CW Nd:YAG laser using Cr{sup 4+}:YAG saturable absorbers},
author = {Shimony, Y and Burshtein, Z and Ben-Amar Baranga, A and Kalisky, Y and Strauss, M},
abstractNote = {Repetitive Q-switching of a CW pumped Nd:YAG laser using a Cr{sup 4+}:YAG saturable absorber was achieved for the first time, providing pulses 80--300 ns wide (FWHM) with repetition rates ranging between 2 and 29 kHz. Different ranges of repetition rates and pulse widths are obtained by using absorbers of different optical densities. Satisfactory quantitative description of the experimental results is obtained by a full numerical solution of the system rate equations according to the theory of Powell and Wolga. These equations involve the dynamics of the laser population inversion, the absorber state population, and the photon density in the laser cavity.},
doi = {10.1109/3.481878},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/218513}, journal = {IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics},
number = 2,
volume = 32,
place = {United States},
year = {1996},
month = {2}
}
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