Abstract
Saturable passive absorber Q-switches offer numerous advantages in cost, simplicity and reliability. In the past few years, Cr4+-doped Y3Al5O12 (YAG) and Mg2SiO4 (forsterite) have been investigated and shown to be good passive Q-switches for the Nd:YAG and several other solid-state lasers. Quite recently, Cr4+:Y2SiO5 (Cr4+:YSO) had also been demonstrated to be a broad-band saturable absorber for the tunable Cr3+:LiCaAlF6 (Cr:LiSAF) laser. In this paper, the tunable passive Q-switching of the Cr3+:LiCaAlF6 (Cr:LiCAF) laser with a broadband-band Cr4+:Y2SiO5 solid-state saturable absorber is reported.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting - Proceedings |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 431-432 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1994 Dec 1 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting. Part 1 (of 2) - Boston, MA, USA Duration: 1994 Oct 31 → 1994 Nov 3 |
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| Other | Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting. Part 1 (of 2) |
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| City | Boston, MA, USA |
| Period | 94-10-31 → 94-11-03 |
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Tunable passive Q-switching of the Cr : LiCaAlF6 laser with a broad-band Cr4+:Y2SiO5 solid-state saturable absorber. / Kuo, Yen-Kuang; Huang, Man-Fang; Birnbaum, Milton.
IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting - Proceedings. Vol. 2 IEEE, 1994. p. 431-432.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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T2 - LiCaAlF6 laser with a broad-band Cr4+:Y2SiO5 solid-state saturable absorber
AU - Kuo, Yen-Kuang
AU - Huang, Man-Fang
AU - Birnbaum, Milton
PY - 1994/12/1
Y1 - 1994/12/1
N2 - Saturable passive absorber Q-switches offer numerous advantages in cost, simplicity and reliability. In the past few years, Cr4+-doped Y3Al5O12 (YAG) and Mg2SiO4 (forsterite) have been investigated and shown to be good passive Q-switches for the Nd:YAG and several other solid-state lasers. Quite recently, Cr4+:Y2SiO5 (Cr4+:YSO) had also been demonstrated to be a broad-band saturable absorber for the tunable Cr3+:LiCaAlF6 (Cr:LiSAF) laser. In this paper, the tunable passive Q-switching of the Cr3+:LiCaAlF6 (Cr:LiCAF) laser with a broadband-band Cr4+:Y2SiO5 solid-state saturable absorber is reported.
AB - Saturable passive absorber Q-switches offer numerous advantages in cost, simplicity and reliability. In the past few years, Cr4+-doped Y3Al5O12 (YAG) and Mg2SiO4 (forsterite) have been investigated and shown to be good passive Q-switches for the Nd:YAG and several other solid-state lasers. Quite recently, Cr4+:Y2SiO5 (Cr4+:YSO) had also been demonstrated to be a broad-band saturable absorber for the tunable Cr3+:LiCaAlF6 (Cr:LiSAF) laser. In this paper, the tunable passive Q-switching of the Cr3+:LiCaAlF6 (Cr:LiCAF) laser with a broadband-band Cr4+:Y2SiO5 solid-state saturable absorber is reported.
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