Passively Q-switched core-doped ceramic Nd:YAG laser with Sm:YAG cladding
Passively Q-switched core-doped ceramic Nd:YAG laser with Sm:YAG cladding
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO®/Europe-EQEC), 17.-22. Juni, München, 85 (2007)Publication type: Conference Paper
Abstract
In this paper we report on a passively Q-switched core-doped Nd:YAG laser, which is end-pumped by a laser diode stack. To suppress ASE and especially parasitic ring modes the cladding consists of Sm:YAG, which is transparent at the pump wavelength of 808 nm and absorbs at the laser wavelength of 1064 nm.