Optically triggered Cr:YAG Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

Brian Cole; Alan Hays; Jonathan Lei; Bradley Schilling; Lew Goldberg

doi:10.1117/12.873937

15 February 2011 Optically triggered Cr:YAG Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

Brian Cole, Alan Hays, Jonathan Lei, Bradley Schilling, Lew Goldberg

Proceedings Volume 7912, Solid State Lasers XX: Technology and Devices; 79120X (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873937
Event: SPIE LASE, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The method of optical triggering using a brass board architecture for a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser by direct bleaching of a Cr:YAG saturable absorber was determined to be effective in reducing the pulse-to-pulse timing jitter. A miniaturized triggering setup was employed to enable the brass board operation of the optically triggered laser. A 3mm wide minilaser diode bar (1024nm) with collimated emission was mounted on a compact heat sink and used to bleach the Cr:YAG saturable absorber from a direction orthogonal to the lasing axis. A compact 300A pulse driver, with <0.5 μs rise time and 3-5 μs duration, was developed for pulsing the 3mm diode bar. These components were combined to demonstrate a compact brassboard implementation of the optically triggered passively Q-switched laser.

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Brian Cole, Alan Hays, Jonathan Lei, Bradley Schilling, and Lew Goldberg "Optically triggered Cr:YAG Q-switched Nd:YAG laser", Proc. SPIE 7912, Solid State Lasers XX: Technology and Devices, 79120X (15 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873937

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