Neodymium:YLF lasers at 1053 nm passively mode locked with a saturable Bragg reflector

2002/01/20 by Ulrich Roth, U. Roth, Jürg E. Balmer +1 · 10 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Diode #Distributed Bragg reflector #Laser #Light source #Materials science #Neodymium #Optics #Optoelectronics #Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics #Physics #Reflector (photography) #Solid State Laser Technologies #Ti:sapphire laser #Tunable laser

paper · doi:10.1364/ao.41.000459

published in Applied Optics 41(3), 459 (Optica Publishing Group)

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Abstract

We present the results obtained from three different setups of stable, diode-laser-pumped Nd:YLF lasers that operate in the TEM00 mode at 1053 nm and are passively mode locked by a saturable Bragg reflector. We obtained pulse widths tailored between approximately 70 ps and approximately 4 ns by using intracavity etalons of various thicknesses. With a maximum output power of 680 mW, we achieved an optical efficiency of 23%.

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