• DocumentCode
    2054187
  • Title

    Radially-polarized, Q-switched pulses from a side-pumped Nd:YVO4 compact stigmatic bounce laser with a photonic crystal output coupler

  • Author

    Omatsu, T. ; Iwamatsu, K. ; Chard, S.P. ; Minassian, A. ; Damzen, M.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. & Image Sci., Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    22-26 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the first demonstration of a radially polarized Nd:YVO4 stigmatic compact bounce laser producing 6.0 W of Q-switched output. The system can also be mode-locked to produce ultrashort radially-polarized pulses.
  • Keywords
    Q-switching; laser mode locking; light polarisation; neodymium; optical couplers; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; photonic crystals; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; Q-switching; YVO4:Nd; laser mode locking; photonic crystal output coupler; radial polarization; side pumping; stigmatic compact bounce laser; ultrashort pulse generation; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical switches; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0533-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    Pending
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942441
  • Filename
    5942441
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2054187