Low cost 60 ps, 1.33 MW peak power, 50 kHz repetition rate pulsed microchip laser fiber amplifier system

Author

Nodop, D. ; Schmidt, O. ; Limpert, J. ; Tünnermann, A. ; Guina, M. ; Hohmuth, R. ; Richter, W.

Author_Institution

Friedrich Schiller Univ., Jena

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper, we present a simple, inexpensive and compact picosecond laser source consisting of a monolithic microchip laser and a fiber based double-pass amplifier. The microchip laser consists of a 200 mum thick, 3% doped Nd:YVO₄ crystal directly glued onto a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. It is pumped with a fiber coupled diode laser at 808 nm and a pump power of 500 mW. The laser generates 60 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 50 kHz and a pulse energy of 0.75 muJ.

Keywords

laser mirrors; light sources; microchip lasers; neodymium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; yttrium compounds; YVO₄:Nd; energy 0.75 muJ; fiber coupled diode laser; fiber-based double-pass amplifier; laser pulse generation; monolithic microchip laser; picosecond laser source; power 1.33 MW; power 500 mW; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; size 200 mum; time 60 ps; wavelength 808 nm; Costs; Doped fiber amplifiers; Fiber lasers; Microchip lasers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386499

Filename

4386499