Efficient high-peak-power diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG/YVO 4 intracavity Raman laser

Kuan-Wei Su; Ya Ting Chang; Yung-Fu Chen

doi:10.1364/AO.47.006675

Efficient high-peak-power diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG/YVO ₄ intracavity Raman laser

Kuan-Wei Su^*, Ya Ting Chang, Yung-Fu Chen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Electrophysics

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

9 Scopus citations

Abstract

An undoped YVO₄ crystal is employed to achieve efficient stimulated Raman scattering conversion in a diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. With an incident pump power of 16.2 W, an 1176 nm first Stokes average output power of 3.0 W was generated at a pulse repetition rate of 50 kHz, corresponding to an optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 18.3%. Moreover, the maximum optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 21.3% was found at 20kHz. The maximum pulse energy is higher than 83 μJ at both 20 and 30 kHz. With an incident pump power of 7.6 W, the underestimated peak power of 43.5 kW was demonstrated at 20 kHz with mode-locked modulation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6675-6679
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Optics
Volume	47
Issue number	35
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.47.006675
State	Published - 10 Dec 2008

Access to Document

10.1364/AO.47.006675

Cite this

@article{60f84a0e896543d89864e5275fc3a40a,

title = "Efficient high-peak-power diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG/YVO 4 intracavity Raman laser",

abstract = "An undoped YVO4 crystal is employed to achieve efficient stimulated Raman scattering conversion in a diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. With an incident pump power of 16.2 W, an 1176 nm first Stokes average output power of 3.0 W was generated at a pulse repetition rate of 50 kHz, corresponding to an optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 18.3%. Moreover, the maximum optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 21.3% was found at 20kHz. The maximum pulse energy is higher than 83 μJ at both 20 and 30 kHz. With an incident pump power of 7.6 W, the underestimated peak power of 43.5 kW was demonstrated at 20 kHz with mode-locked modulation.",

author = "Kuan-Wei Su and Chang, {Ya Ting} and Yung-Fu Chen",

year = "2008",

month = dec,

day = "10",

doi = "10.1364/AO.47.006675",

language = "English",

volume = "47",

pages = "6675--6679",

journal = "Applied Optics",

issn = "1559-128X",

publisher = "The Optical Society",

number = "35",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Efficient high-peak-power diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG/YVO 4 intracavity Raman laser

AU - Su, Kuan-Wei

AU - Chang, Ya Ting

AU - Chen, Yung-Fu

PY - 2008/12/10

Y1 - 2008/12/10

N2 - An undoped YVO4 crystal is employed to achieve efficient stimulated Raman scattering conversion in a diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. With an incident pump power of 16.2 W, an 1176 nm first Stokes average output power of 3.0 W was generated at a pulse repetition rate of 50 kHz, corresponding to an optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 18.3%. Moreover, the maximum optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 21.3% was found at 20kHz. The maximum pulse energy is higher than 83 μJ at both 20 and 30 kHz. With an incident pump power of 7.6 W, the underestimated peak power of 43.5 kW was demonstrated at 20 kHz with mode-locked modulation.

AB - An undoped YVO4 crystal is employed to achieve efficient stimulated Raman scattering conversion in a diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. With an incident pump power of 16.2 W, an 1176 nm first Stokes average output power of 3.0 W was generated at a pulse repetition rate of 50 kHz, corresponding to an optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 18.3%. Moreover, the maximum optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 21.3% was found at 20kHz. The maximum pulse energy is higher than 83 μJ at both 20 and 30 kHz. With an incident pump power of 7.6 W, the underestimated peak power of 43.5 kW was demonstrated at 20 kHz with mode-locked modulation.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=60949100620&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1364/AO.47.006675

DO - 10.1364/AO.47.006675

M3 - Article

C2 - 19079479

AN - SCOPUS:60949100620

SN - 1559-128X

VL - 47

SP - 6675

EP - 6679

JO - Applied Optics

JF - Applied Optics

IS - 35

ER -

Efficient high-peak-power diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG/YVO ₄ intracavity Raman laser

Abstract

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this