Laser performance of monolithic Cr, Nd:YAG crystal with prepumping modulation

Ping Yan; Xinning Tian; Mali Gong; Tao Xie

doi:10.1117/1.1825445

1 January 2005 Laser performance of monolithic Cr, Nd:YAG crystal with prepumping modulation

Ping Yan, Xinning Tian, Mali Gong, Tao Xie

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 44, Issue 1, 014201 (January 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1825445

Abstract

A comprehensive experimental study of the prepumping technology on the passively Q-switched monolithic Cr⁴⁺, Nd:YAG laser is presented. Compared with pulse pumping, the stability of pulse energy and the temporal jitter of laser pulses are improved to a great extent with prepumping modulation. The dependency of output stability performance on the four prepumping parameters is shown. Among them the base current I_b plays an important role. The dynamic of the prepumping is given. The experimental results show that prepumping is a promising method to get stabilized Q-switch pulse in miniature Nd:YAG laser.

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Ping Yan, Xinning Tian, Mali Gong, and Tao Xie "Laser performance of monolithic Cr, Nd:YAG crystal with prepumping modulation," Optical Engineering 44(1), 014201 (1 January 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1825445

Published: 1 January 2005

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