High-efficiency flashlamp-pumped Nd:KGW laser

✍ Scribed by V. Kushawaha; A. Banerjee; L. Major

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 439 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0721-7269
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00348632

✦ Synopsis

The laser performance of a N d : K G W rod has been studied in a single flashlamp cavity in the free running as well as in the Q-switched mode of operation at input energies ranging from 1-25 J. The results of N d : K G W have been compared with Nd: YAG operated under identical experimental conditions. The laser extraction efficiency of the N d : K G W rod was observed to be 2.5times higher at a much lower threshold than that of the Nd:YAG rod. The intrinsic slope efficiency was determined to be 2.25% and 8.840% for Nd: YAG and N d : K G W rods, respectively.