High efficiency sub-nanosecond electro-optical Q-switched laser operating at kilohertz repetition frequency

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ab8ac4

Abstract Based on a theoretical model of Q-switched laser with the influences of the driving signal sent to the Pockels cell and the doping concentration of the gain medium taken into account, a method of achieving high energy sub-nanosecond Q-switched lasers is proposed and verified in experiment. When a Nd:YVO₄ crystal with a doping concentration of 0.7 at.% is used as a gain medium and a driving signal with the optimal high-level voltage is applied to the Pockels cell, a stable single-transverse-mode electro-optical Q-switched laser with a pulse width of 0.77 ns and a pulse energy of 1.04 mJ operating at the pulse repetition frequency of 1 kHz is achieved. The precise tuning of the pulse width is also demonstrated.

Keywords: milijoule level sub-nanosecond laser kilohertz repetition frequency doping concentration of laser crystal tunable pulse width

Received: 29 February 2020
Revised: 23 March 2020
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PACS:	42.60.By	(Design of specific laser systems)
	42.60.Gd	(Q-switching)

Fund: Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB0405203) and the Shanxi "1331 Project" Key Subjects Construction, China (Grant No. 1331KSC).

Corresponding Authors: Yuan-Ji Li
E-mail: liyuanji@sxu.edu.cn

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Xin Zhao(赵鑫), Zheng Song(宋政), Yuan-Ji Li(李渊骥), Jin-Xia Feng(冯晋霞), Kuan-Shou Zhang(张宽收) High efficiency sub-nanosecond electro-optical Q-switched laser operating at kilohertz repetition frequency 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 084205

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