Saturable absorber Q-switches for tunable near-IR solid-state lasers

Yen-Kuang Kuo; Ferruh Unlu; Sanggeon Lee; Man-Fang Huang; Milton Birnbaum; Peter D. Fuqua; Bruce Dunn

Saturable absorber Q-switches for tunable near-IR solid-state lasers

Yen-Kuang Kuo, Ferruh Unlu, Sanggeon Lee, Man-Fang Huang, Milton Birnbaum, Peter D. Fuqua, Bruce Dunn

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Abstract

Saturable absorber Q-switching of Cr:LiCAF, alexandrite, and ruby lasers using the solid-state polymer dye-doped ORMOSIL was demonstrated. Tunable passive Q-switching of Cr:LiCAF laser with a 2-mm-thick HITCI-in-ORMOSIL (doping concentration was 1.24 × 10¹⁶ cm^-3) was demonstrated with a 36-cm-long laser resonator (output coupler reflectivity was about 95% near 780 nm). A three-plate quartz birefringent filter was used to tune the laser wavelength. The pulse-width and output energy of the Q-switched laser pulse as a function of wavelength are shown. The Q-switched laser output has a shorter pulse duration and higher pulse energy, when the Q-switched laser action occurs near the absorption peak of the dye Q-switch, which is predicted from the theoretical modeling².

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	144-145
Number of pages	2
Journal	Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS
Publication status	Published - 1996 Jan 1

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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