Q-switched pulse laser generation from double-cladding Nd:YAG ceramics waveguides

Yang Tan; Qingfang Luan; Fengqin Liu; Feng Chen; Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana

doi:10.1364/OE.21.018963

Q-switched pulse laser generation from double-cladding Nd:YAG ceramics waveguides

Opt Express. 2013 Aug 12;21(16):18963-8. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.018963.

Authors

Yang Tan¹, Qingfang Luan, Fengqin Liu, Feng Chen, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana

Affiliation

¹ School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials (Ministry of Education), Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China. tanyang@sdu.edu.cn

PMID: 23938810
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.018963

Abstract

This work reports on the Q-switched pulsed laser generation from double-cladding Nd:YAG ceramic waveguides. Double-cladding waveguides with different combination of diameters were inscribed into a sample of Nd:YAG ceramic. With an additional semiconductor saturable absorber, stable pulsed laser emission at the wavelength of 1064 nm was achieved with pulses of 21 ns temporal duration and ~14 μJ pulse energy at a repetition rate of 3.65 MHz.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't