Over Ten-millijoule Eye-safe Laser Generation by Extra-cavity Optical Parametric Oscillator Driven with a Diode-pumped Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG Q-Switched Laser

Y. P. Huang, Y. J. Huang, Y. F. Chen

2015

Abstract

An efficient diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG Q-switched laser with a convex-concave resonator is employed to develop a high-pulse-energy eye-safe laser. We utilize a monolithic KTP crystal to be the optical parametric oscillator (OPO) crystal, and to form an extracavity OPO configuration. Based on the efficient Nd:YAG laser oscillator at 1064 nm carrying a pulse energy of 30 mJ, the OPO energy at 1573 nm of 13.3 mJ is obtained with a pulse width of 6 ns, corresponding to an OPO conversion efficiency of 44.3%.

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Huang Y., Huang Y. and Chen Y. (2015). Over Ten-millijoule Eye-safe Laser Generation by Extra-cavity Optical Parametric Oscillator Driven with a Diode-pumped Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG Q-Switched Laser . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 2: PHOTOPTICS, ISBN 978-989-758-093-2, pages 172-176. DOI: 10.5220/0005254001720176


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@conference{photoptics15,
author={Y. P. Huang and Y. J. Huang and Y. F. Chen},
title={Over Ten-millijoule Eye-safe Laser Generation by Extra-cavity Optical Parametric Oscillator Driven with a Diode-pumped Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG Q-Switched Laser},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 2: PHOTOPTICS,},
year={2015},
pages={172-176},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005254001720176},
isbn={978-989-758-093-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 2: PHOTOPTICS,
TI - Over Ten-millijoule Eye-safe Laser Generation by Extra-cavity Optical Parametric Oscillator Driven with a Diode-pumped Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG Q-Switched Laser
SN - 978-989-758-093-2
AU - Huang Y.
AU - Huang Y.
AU - Chen Y.
PY - 2015
SP - 172
EP - 176
DO - 10.5220/0005254001720176