We have designed a high-average-power diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG laser acousto-optically Q-switched at a pulse repetition rate range of 5-20 kHz. Double synchronized Q-switches were used for increasing the hold-off current and obtained more than 200 W average output power at 10 kHz and 110 ns pulse du
High peak power Nd:YAG laser pumped by 600-W diode laser stack
โ Scribed by Waldemar Zendzian; Jan K. Jabczynski; Jacek Kwiatkowski
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 324 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0030-3992
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โฆ Synopsis
The Q-switched laser with triangle slab made of Nd:YAG crystal side pumped by 600-W quasi-cw diode laser stack has been designed. The multimode (M 2 E2.6) output energy of about 42 mJ was demonstrated in free running mode for110-mJ pump energy. In Q-switch experiments, the KDDP Pockels cell was placed between the slab and rear mirror in plane-plane cavity with output coupler of 84% transmission. The energy of 8 mJ in 2.1-ns pulse duration was obtained for near TEM 00 output beam. For passive Q-switching by means of Cr:YAG crystal of 12.6% unsaturated transmission, the energy of 5.1 mJ in 2.5-ns pulse duration was obtained for output beam close to TEM 00 mode.
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