Theoretical and experimental study of a diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YVO4 green laser with periodically poled KTP

✍ Scribed by G. Li; S. Zhao; K. Yang; W. Wu

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 165 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1612-2011
• DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200510020

✦ Synopsis

A diode-pumped acively Q-switched Nd:YdVO~4~ green
laser with periodically poled KTP (PPKTP) has been realized. The
dependences of pulse width, pulse energy and peak power on
incident pump power are measured for the generated-green-light
pulses. A rate equation model is introduced to theoretically
analyze the results obtained in the experiment, in which the
spatial distributions of the intracavity photon density, the pump
beam and the population-inversion density are taken into account.
These rate equations are solved numerically and the theoretical
calculations are in agreement with the experimental results.