Q-switched and Mode-locked Characteristics of Cr~(4+)∶YAG Crystal

The passively Q-switched and mode-locked(QML) characteristics in a diode-pumped Nd∶GdVO_4 laser with Cr~(4+)∶YAG saturable absorbers have been demonstrated. A maximum average output power of 710mW has been obtained in the QML laser. The maximum energy of a single Q-switched pulse is 52.5μJ, with the corresponding pulse width of 30ns and the peak power of 1.75kW, at the incident pump power of 7.75W. The repetition rates of the Q-switched envelope and the mode-locked laser pulse are 16.7kHz and 680MHz, respectively.     

Passive mode locked diode-pumped Nd:GdYVO4 laser with a GaAs absorber

A passively Q-switched mode-locked Nd：GdYVO4 laser is successfully demonstrated by using a piece of GaAs crystal grown at low temperature as the passively saturated absorber and the output coupler. Fundamental properties of the Nd： GdYVO4 laser are investigated. The maximum average output power of 3.5 W is obtained by using plainsphere when the incident pumping power is 10 W, which corresponds to an optical-optical coversion efficiency of 35%. The threshold power for the Q-switching mode-locked is 1.2 W. The maximum average output power of 1.72 W is obtained by using GaAs when the incident pumping power is 10 W, mode-locked pulse train with a repetition rate of - 113 MHz is achieved. At the incident laser pumping power of 7 W, the modulation depth is 100%.     

Passive mode locked diode-pumped Nd：GdYVO4 laser with a GaAs absorber

A passively Q-switched mode-locked Nd:GdYVO4 laser is successfully demonstrated by using a piece of GaAs crystal grown at low temperature as the passively saturated absorber and the output coupler. Fundamental properties of the Nd: GdYVO4 laser are investigated. The maximum average output power of 3.5 W is obtained by using plainsphere when the incident pumping power is 10 W,which corresponds to an optical-optical coversion efficiency of 35%. The threshold power for the Q-switching mode-locked is 1.2 W. The maximum average output power of 1.72 W is obtained by using GaAs when the incident pumping power is 10 W,mode-locked pulse train with a repetition rate of ～113 MHz is achieved. At the incident laser pumping power of 7 W,the modulation depth is 100%.     

Diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd： YAG laser at 946 nm

A diode-pumped Nd： YAG acousto-optically（A-O） Q-switched laser at wavelength 946 nm formed with a simple plane-plane cavity has been demonstrated. The maximum average output power was 850 mW. The highest peak power was 531 W with the pulse repetition rate of 20 kHz and pulse width of 80 ns at the incident pump power of 19.5 W.     

Analysis and design of CW-LD pumped stable Q-switched laser

A high power continuous wave (CW) laser diode (LD) pumped acousto-optic Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser is presented. A short pulse at the 1064 nm is obtained. With a repetition rate of 50 kHz, the maximum average output power of 5.72 W is achieved. The optical conversion efficiency and the slope efficiency are up to 28% and 32.4% respectively. At the repetition rate of 10 kHz and the pulse width of 16.3ns, the maximum single pulse energy of 286 μJ and the peak power of 13kW are acquired. The laser can be used as a signal source in the free-space optical communication. The output signal agrees with the modulate signal well.     

Diode-pumped double passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO4 laser

Through using both Cr^4＋：YAG and GaAs saturable absorbers, a diode-pttmped double passively Q-switched Nd：GdVO4 laser is realized and compared with a single passively Q-switched laser. This laser can generate symmetric pulse temporal profiles and shorter pulses. A laser pulse width of 17 ns has been achieved with the incident pump power of 8.5 W.     

Diode-pumped double passively Q-switched Nd：GdVO4 laser

Through using both Cr4 :YAG and GaAs saturable absorbers,a diode-pumped double passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO4 laser is realized and compared with a single passively Q-switched laser. This laser can generate symmetric pulse temporal profiles and shorter pulses. A laser pulse width of 17 ns has been achieved with the incident pump power of 8.5 W.     

LD side-pumped intracavity frequency-doubled high Nd：YAG green laser based on acousto-optic Q-switch

A highly efficient and high power green laser generated by intracavity frequency doubling of a diode-sidepumped Q-switched Nd：YAG laser has been demonstrated. In the simple L-shaped cavity geometry,the maximum green output power of 28.5 W was obtained with a pulse width of 95 ns at a pulse repetition rate of 10 kHz by using a LBO crystal for frequency doubling,corresponding to a conversion efficiency of 11% from diode pump power to pulse green power. At a pulse repetition rate of 1 kHz,6.9 mJ of pulse energy,25 ns of pulse duration and 276 kW of peak power were obtained.     

Gold nanoparticles film for Q-switched pulse generation in thulium doped fiber laser cavity

Passively Q-switched thulium doped fiber laser (TDFL) has been successfully demonstrated using gold nanoparticles (GNPs), which were embedded into polyvinyl alcohol as saturable absorber (SA). The stable self-starting Q-switched laser was generated to operate at 1 891 nm when a tiny piece of the prepared film was slot in between two fiber ferrules and incorporated into the laser cavity. The repetition rate can be adjusted from 48.54 kHz to 49.64 kHz while the pulse width decreased from 3.52 μs to 2.38 μs with the increase of 1 550 nm pump power from 840 mW to 930 mW. The corresponding pump power output power linearly increased from 3.62 mW to 6.3 mW with a slope efficiency of 2.53%. The maximum peak power and pulse energy were recorded at about 39 mW and 0.12 µJ, respectively at pump power of 930 mW. The Q-switching operation was caused by the surface plasmon resonance absorption of GNPs.     

Fabrication of narrow pulse passively Q-switched self- stimulated Raman laser with c-cut Nd:GdVO4

Combining the self-stimulated Raman scattering technology and saturable absorber of Cr4+:YAG, a 1.17 μm c-cut Nd:GdVO4 picosecond Q-switched laser is demonstrated in this paper. With an incident pump power of 10 W, the Q-switched laser with average power of 430 mW for 1.17 μm, pulse width of 270 ps, repetition rate of 13 kHz and the first order Stokes conversion efficiency of 4.3% is obtained. The Q-switched pulse width can be the narrowest in our research. In addition, the yellow laser at 0.58 μm is also achieved by using the LiB3O5 frequency doubling crystal.     

C-cut Nd-doped vanadate crystal self-Raman laser with narrow Q-switched envelope and high mode-locked repetition rate

In this paper, a passively Q-switched and mode-locked c-cut Nd-doped vanadate crystal self-Raman laser at 1.17 μm is firstly demonstrated by using Cr^4＋：YAG. Two crystals of Nd^3＋：YVO4 and Nd^3＋：Gd VO4 are adopted to generate laser, respectively. With the incident pump power of 13 W, the average output powers of 678 m W and 852 m W at 1.17 μm are obtained with the durations of Q-switched envelope of 1.8 ns and 2 ns, respectively. The mode-locked repetition rates are as high as 2.3 Hz and 2.2 GHz, respectively. As far as we know, the Q-switched envelope is the narrowest and the mode-locked repetition rate is the highest at present in this field. In addition, yellow laser output is also achieved by using the Li B3O5 frequency doubling crystal.     

Diode-pumped Doubly Q-switched Nd∶YAG Laser with Acoustic-optical Modulator and Cr~(4+)∶YAG Saturable Absorber

A diode-pumped doubly Q-switched Nd∶YAG laser operating at 1064nm both with an acoustic-optical(AO)modulator and Cr4+∶YAG saturable absorber in the cavity is demonstrated.At the incident pump power of 11.8W the laser can generate stable 8ns pulse with the peak power of 23.6kW at a 10kHz repetition rate.The pulse temporal profile is more symmetric and shorter compared with that of passively Q-switched lasers with only AO-active and Cr4+∶YAG.A reasonable analysis is developed to explain the experimental resul...     

Laser-diode pumped Nd: GdVO4 ultraviolet laser with LBO frequency tripling

We have demonstrated a laser-diode pumped Nd.GdVO4 extra-cavity frequency tripling ultraviolet laser with a LBO crystal in this paper. Under the acousto-optic （A-O） Q-switched operation, we have obtained 355 nm ultraviolet laser,with pulse width of 25 ns and pulse repetition rate of 20 kHz. By using a type Ⅰ non-critical phase-matched LBO crystal, the SHG output power of 822 mW is achieved at the incident pump power of 16 W. The output power of 355nm UV laser is 260mW with a type Ⅱ phase-matched LBO crystal,and the conversion efficiency （1 064 nm-355 nm） is 5.9 %. The power stability of 355 nm laser is 1.7% in 1 h.     

Dual-wavelength Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser using an SMF-MMF-SMF structure and graphene oxide

We have successfully demonstrated a stable dual-wavelength Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) using a single mode fiber-multimode fiber-single mode fiber (SMF-MMF-SMF) structure-based filter. Using a graphene oxide (GO) saturable absorber (SA) to modulate the cavity loss, passive Q-switching of the dual-wavelength laser is achieved at 1 549.6 nm and 1 558.6 nm. The laser recorded the shortest pulse width of about 2.9 μs, the maximum pulse repetition rate of 65.27 kHz and the maximum average output power of 0.99 mW at pump power of 225.1 mW. The present laser has the maximum pulse energy of 15.17 nJ. A 2 SMF-MMF-SMF structure has been experimentally confirmed to be very promising as a wavelength filter.     

A compact dual-band bandpass filter based on porous silicon dual-microcavity of one-dimensional photonic crystal

We demonstrate a laser-diode(LD)pumped actively Q-switched laser with Nd:Sc0.2Y0.8Si O5(Nd:SYSO)crystal for the first time.A stable actively Q-switched laser is obtained at dual wavelengths of 1 075.2 nm and 1 078.2 nm.The maximum average output power of 720 m W is obtained at the repetition rate of 15 k Hz under the pump power of8.7 W.The minimum pulse width of 58 ns is obtained at the repetition rate of 5 k Hz under the pump power of 8.7 W,corresponding to the peak power of 1.9 k W and the pulse energy of 112μJ.     

Diode-pumped Q-switched Extra-cavity Frequency-doubled Nd：YVO4/KTP Green Laser

A diode-pumped acousto-optical（A-O） Q-switched extra-cavity frequency-doubled Nd：YVO4/KTP （KTiOPO4） green laser formed with a simple plane-plane cavity has been demonstrated. With the incident pump power of 12.7W, A-O Q-switched average output power at 1064nm was 3.81W with a duration of 25 ns at a repetition rate of 20 kHz, extra-cavity frequency doubling with KTP as the nonlinear crystal yielded the maximum output power of 1. 92 W at 532 nm, the corresponding optical conversion efficiency from 1064nm to 532nm light is 50.4%. The continuous-wave（CW） laser properties of diodepumped Nd：YVO4 crystal operating at 1064nm have been studied. With the incident pump power of 25 W, the maximum CW output power of 13.81 W was obtained with the corresponding optical conversion efficiency of 55.24%.     

A speed measurement system utilizing an injection-seeded Tm:YAG laser

A speed measurement system utilizing a stable single frequency Q-switched Tm:YAG laser was presented in this study.The maximum pulse energy of the laser was 2.38 mJ with the pulse repetition rate of 10...     

Dual-wavelength all-fiber Q-switched fiber laser using bismuth-doped fiber as saturable absorber

A passively Q-switched all-fiber laser is demonstrated using a 10-cm-long bismuth-doped fiber (BDF) as a saturable absorber (SA). The dual-wavelength operation was obtained due to the nonlinear effect inside the fabricated BDF, which has a high germanium content. Stable Q-switched pulses were obtained at the dual synchronous wavelengths of 1 530.1 nm and 1 531.1 nm. When the pump power is tuned from 105.3 mW to 191.0 mW, the repetition rate can be varied from 82.6 kMz to 117.6 kHz. The maximum pulse energy and average output power were 83.4 nJ and 9.8 mW, respectively while the minimum pulse width was 8.5 μs at the maximum pump power of 191.0 mW. Our results indicate that BDF could be a promising alternative optical modulator for pulsed fiber laser application.     

KLu(WO4)2crystal as the Raman medium in a diode-pumped passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

A diode-pumped passively Q-switched Nd:YAG/KLu(WO 4 ) 2 (KLW) Raman laser is presented for the first time. As high as 1.89 W average output power is obtained at the pump power of 15.7 W with the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 27.2 kHz, and the corresponding diode-to-Stokes conversion efficiency is 12.0%. The highest pulse energy of 84.0 μJ is obtained. The obtained average output power and pulse energy are much higher than the previously reported results of diode-pumped passively Q-switched Raman lasers.     

Wavelength injection locking actively Q-switched random fiber laser based on random phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating and electro-optic modulator

In this paper, an actively Q-switched wavelength injection locking random fiber laser (RFL) based on random phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (RPS-FBG) is proposed, and the performance of the laser is verified by experiments. Within the reflection bandwidth range of RPS-FBG, spanning from 1 549.2 nm to 1 549.9 nm, different laser modes with stable central wavelength and peak power can be selectively chosen by varying the injected light wavelength. The power fluctuation within 1 h is less than 0.1 dBm, and the central wavelength drift is less than 0.02 nm. When the pump power increases from 90 mW to 300 mW, the pulse width decreases from 3.2 μs to 1.5 μs, and the pulse repetition frequency is 20 kHz. The RFL can reach a stable locking state at the lowest pump power of 100 mW and the lowest injection power of 3 dBm. When the wavelength is locked, the output pulse is a single pulse. On the contrary, the unlocked output pulse is multi-pulse. The laser has the characteristics of high wavelength tunability in the reflection range of RPS-FBG and it can be an ideal light source in the fields of laser imaging and pulse coding.