A high power, high slope efficiency laser diode pumped continuous Nd:glass laser
Hughes, D.W., Bailey, C.A., Barr, J.R.M., Phillips, M.W. and Hanna, D.C. (1991) A high power, high slope efficiency laser diode pumped continuous Nd:glass laser. In, EQEC '91: 3rd European Quantum Electronics Conference & 10th National Quantum Electronics Conference, Edinburgh, GB, 27 - 30 Aug 1991.
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It has recently been shown that picosecond pulses may be readily obtained by the active mode-locking of the laser-diode-pumped Nd:glass laser. Sub-picosecond pulses have been obtained from a Nd:glass laser pumped by a krypton ion laser using the technique of self-starting additive pulse mode-locking. The existence of an intensity dependent threshold for the onset of self-starting APM indicates the need for the development of high power, high slope efficiency laser-diode-pumped Nd:glass lasers if self-starting APM is to be achieved in this system. In this paper, we report the operation of a Nd:glass laser pumped by three single stripe laser diodes, which yielded an output power of 360 mW with a slope efficiency of 32%. This performance is shown to be similar to that obtained using an argon ion laser-pumped Ti:sapphire laser as the pump source.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > Optoelectronics Research Centre |
| Item ID: | 77435 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 11:22 |
| Contributors: | Hughes, D.W. (Author) Bailey, C.A. (Author) Barr, J.R.M. (Author) Phillips, M.W. (Author) Hanna, D.C. (Author) |
| Date: | 1991 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/77435 |
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