Mode-locking operation of a flash-lamp-pumped Nd:YAG laser at 1.064µm with Zakharov-Manakov solitons

✍ Scribed by M. Andreana; F. Baronio; M. Conforti; A. Tonello; C. De Angelis; V. Couderc

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1612-2011
• DOI: 10.1002/lapl.201110071

✦ Synopsis

We report experimental results on the mode-locked operation of a flash-lamp-pumped Nd:YAG laser at 1.064 μm. The KTP crystal, which induces passive mode-locking, exploits the existence and properties of spatial Zakharov-Manakov soliton dynamics. A train of pulses with duration close to 100 ps, repetition rate of 136 MHz and modulation depth almost 100% has been produced. The mode-locked pulses are modulated with a longer 180 ns pulse envelope with repetition rate of 10 Hz. 180 ns 100 ps Oscilloscope trace of a train of mode-locked 100 ps pulses of the flash-pumped Nd:YAG at 1.064 μm.