Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a frequency-doubled diode-pumped Nd:YLF laser

We report on the operation of a tunable all-solid-state (holosteric) laser system consisting of a tunable Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a frequency-doubled diode-laser-pumped Nd:YLF laser. With a 1-W pump diode, the Nd:YLF laser has been frequency-modulation mode locked and Q switched at 1.047 microm....

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Published in:Optics letters 1990-04, Vol.15 (7), p.375-377
Main Authors: MAKER, G. T, FERGUSON, A. I
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
426002 - Engineering- Lasers & Masers- (1990-)
ALLOYS
ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS
ALUMINIUM OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CORUNDUM
Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers
EFFICIENCY
ENGINEERING
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
LASERS
MINERALS
NEODYMIUM LASERS
OPERATION
Optics
OXIDE MINERALS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
Physics
PUMPING
SAPPHIRE
SOLID STATE LASERS
TITANIUM ADDITIONS
TITANIUM ALLOYS
TUNING
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Summary:We report on the operation of a tunable all-solid-state (holosteric) laser system consisting of a tunable Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a frequency-doubled diode-laser-pumped Nd:YLF laser. With a 1-W pump diode, the Nd:YLF laser has been frequency-modulation mode locked and Q switched at 1.047 microm. This produces a pulse envelope of 75-nsec duration with 45 microJ of energy in 21-psec pulses at a 360-MHz repetition rate. This output was frequency doubled in 90 degrees phase-matched MgO:LiNbO(3) with a 47% energy conversion efficiency. The Ti:sapphire cavity was a three-mirror astigmatically compensated arrangement.The threshold absorbed pump energy was 3.9 microJ, with an output energy of 1.3 microJ at 10.8-microJ absorbed pump power.The tuning range was 746-838 nm and was limited by the mirror reflectivities.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/OL.15.000375