Tunable Nd, La: SrF2 laser and passively Q-switched operation based on gold nanobipyramids saturable absorber

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/2/024205

Abstract A novel Nd, La:SrF₂ disordered crystal is prepared, and its continuous-wave wavelength tuning operation is performed for the first time. Employing a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) based gold nanobipyramids (G-NBPs) saturable absorber, we obtain a compact diode-pumped passively Q-switched Nd, La:SrF₂ laser. The stable Q-switched pulse operates with the shortest pulse duration of 1.15 μs and the maximum repetition rate of 41 kHz. The corresponding single pulse energy is 2.24 μJ. The results indicate that G-NBPs could be a promising saturable absorber applied to the diode-pumped solid state lasers (DPSSLs).

Keywords: tunable laser Q-switching Nd La:SrF₂ crystal gold nanobipyramids

Received: 13 July 2016
Revised: 18 September 2016
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PACS:	42.55.-f	(Lasers)
	42.55.Xi	(Diode-pumped lasers)
	42.60.Gd	(Q-switching)
	42.60.Fc	(Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61475089, 51432007, and 61422511).

Corresponding Authors: Dan-Hua Liu, Jie Liu
E-mail: danhua_liu@126.com;jieliu@sdnu.edu.cn

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Feng Zhang(张峰), Hua-Nian Zhang(张华年), Dan-Hua Liu(刘丹华), Jie Liu(刘杰), Feng-Kai Ma(马凤凯), Da-Peng Jiang(姜大朋), Si-Yuan Pang(逄思远), Liang-Bi Su(苏良碧), Jun Xu(徐军) Tunable Nd, La: SrF₂ laser and passively Q-switched operation based on gold nanobipyramids saturable absorber 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 024205

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