Tunable and Passively Mode-Locking Nd0.01:Gd0.89La0.1NbO4 Picosecond Laser

Shande Liu; Yuqing Zhao; Ke Zhang; Bo Chen; Ning Zhang; Dehua Li; Huiyun Zhang; Yuping Zhang; Lihua Wang; Shoujun Ding; Qingli Zhang

doi:10.3390/molecules26113179

Tunable and Passively Mode-Locking Nd_0.01:Gd_0.89La_0.1NbO₄ Picosecond Laser

Molecules. 2021 May 26;26(11):3179. doi: 10.3390/molecules26113179.

Authors

Shande Liu¹, Yuqing Zhao¹, Ke Zhang¹, Bo Chen¹, Ning Zhang¹, Dehua Li¹, Huiyun Zhang¹, Yuping Zhang¹, Lihua Wang¹, Shoujun Ding^{2

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4}, Qingli Zhang⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China.
² School of Science and Engineering of Mathematics and Physics, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan 243002, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China.
⁴ The Key Laboratory of Photonic Devices and Materials, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China.

Abstract

A high-quality Nd_0.01:Gd_0.89La_0.1NbO₄ (Nd:GLNO) crystal is grown by the Czochralski method, demonstrating wide absorption and fluorescence spectra and advantage for producing ultrafast laser pulses. In this paper, the tunable and passively mode-locking Nd:GLNO lasers are characterized for the first time. The tuning coverage is 34.87 nm ranging from 1058.05 to 1092.92 nm with a maximum output power of 4.6 W at 1065.29 nm. A stable continuous-wave (CW) passively mode-locking Nd:GLNO laser is achieved at 1065.26 nm, delivering a pulse width of 9.1 ps and a maximum CW mode-locking output power of 0.27 W.

Keywords: Nd:GLNO crystal; mode-locking; tunable laser.

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