Optically-pumped saturable absorber for fast switching between continuous-wave and passively mode-locked regimes of a Nd:YVO4 laser

V G Savitski; D Burns; S Calvez

doi:10.1364/oe.17.005373

Optically-pumped saturable absorber for fast switching between continuous-wave and passively mode-locked regimes of a Nd:YVO4 laser

Opt Express. 2009 Mar 30;17(7):5373-8. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.005373.

Authors

V G Savitski¹, D Burns, S Calvez

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. vasili.savitski@strath.ac.uk

PMID: 19333302
DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.005373

Abstract

We report on the fast (approximately 50 micros) remote-controlled switching between continuous-wave (cw), cw mode-locked (ML) and Q-switched ML modes of operation of a Nd:YVO(4) laser using an optically-pumped saturable absorber (SA). Pulses as short as 40 ps with an average output power of 0.5 W are obtained in cw ML regime.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computer-Aided Design
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Lasers*
Lasers, Solid-State*
Neodymium*
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity

Substances

Neodymium