Actively mode-locked and diode-pumped Nd/sup 3+/:LBGM laser

Author

Chekhlov, O.V. ; Demidovich, A.A. ; Kuzmin, A.N. ; Raybtsev, G.I. ; Titov, A.N.

Author_Institution

Stepanov Inst. of Phys., Acad. of Sci., Minsk, Byelorussia

fYear

2000

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2000

Abstract

Summary form only given. Laser materials with broad emission band have been intensively investigated for application in diode-pumped ultrashort pulse lasers. In this work we use an oxide crystal with disordered structure Nd/sup 3+/:Li/sub 3/Ba/sub 2/Gd/sub 3/(MoO/sub 4/)/sub 8/ (Nd/sup 3+/:LBGM) which has shown efficient CW and Q-switch lasing. The Nd/sup 3+/:LBGM laser crystal has a broad emission band (FWHM /spl sim/12 nm) with two pronounced maxima near 1.061 /spl mu/m and 1.066 /spl mu/m. Broad absorption spectrum (max at 806.5 nm) and relatively high Nd/sup 3+/ ion concentration (/spl sim/4% at) in the used crystal give us a possibility of using low power laser diodes for pumping.

Keywords

laser mode locking; neodymium; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; solid lasers; Li/sub 3/Ba/sub 2/Gd/sub 3/(MoO/sub 4/)/sub 8/:Nd; Nd/sup 3+/:LBGM laser; absorption spectrum; active mode locking; diode pumping; disordered structure; oxide crystal; ultrashort pulse generation; Diodes; Filters; Fluorescence; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Neodymium; Optical pulse generation; Propagation delay; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6319-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909873

Filename

909873