High-power, actively Q-switched planar waveguide Nd: YAG laser with a hybrid resonator

J. Xu; H. J. Baker; F. Sun; A. Russell; J. D. R. Valera; D. R. Hall

doi:10.1364/ASSP.2005.MF45

Advanced Solid-State Photonics
Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2005),
paper MF45
•https://doi.org/10.1364/ASSP.2005.MF45

High-power, actively Q-switched planar waveguide Nd: YAG laser with a hybrid resonator

J. Xu, H. J. Baker, F. Sun, A. Russell, J. D. R. Valera, and D. R. Hall

Advanced Solid-State Photonics 2005

Vienna Austria
6–9 February 2005
ISBN: 1-55752-781-4

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J. Xu, H. J. Baker, F. Sun, A. Russell, J. D. R. Valera, and D. R. Hall, "High-power, actively Q-switched planar waveguide Nd: YAG laser with a hybrid resonator," in Advanced Solid-State Photonics, Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2005), paper MF45.

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Abstract

The combination of a face-pumped, Nd: YAG planar waveguide gain medium with an AOM in a hybrid waveguide unstable resonator results in highly effective Q-switching. This is shown to be a direct consequence of using a waveguide structure.

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