Superior performance of a 2 kHz pulse Nd: YAG laser based on a gradient-doped crystal

M Wei, T Cheng, R Dou, Q Zhang, H Jiang - Photonics Research, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Herein, we report a homemade new Nd: YAG crystal rod that contains a gradient dopant of
0.39–0.80 at.% Nd^ 3+ from end to end, achieving superior performance of a 2 kHz Nd: YAG …

High-stability, high-pulse-energy MOPA laser system based on composite Nd: YAG crystal with multiple doping concentrations

X Li, Y Zhou, H Xu, W Lu, R Fan, D Chen, Y Jiang… - Optics & Laser …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a high-stability, high-pulse-energy laser at a repetition rate of 2 kHz was
presented from an electro-optically Q-switched Nd: YAG master oscillator power amplifier …

High-repetition-rate and high-power efficient picosecond thin-disk regenerative amplifier

S Xu, Y Gao, X Liu, Y Chen, D Ouyang… - High Power Laser …, 2024 - cambridge.org
We present an effective approach to realize a highly efficient, high-power and chirped pulse
amplification-free ultrafast ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet thin-disk regenerative …

5 kHz, 4.2mJ, 900 ps end-pumped Nd:YVO4 MOPA laser system

Y Zhou, X Li, C Wei, X Chen, H Xu, R Fan, D Chen… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A 5 kHz sub-nanosecond master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) laser system was
reported in this paper. The master oscillator was an electro-optically Q-switched Nd: YVO_4 …

Passively Q-switched laser based on gold nanobipyramids as saturable absorbers in the 1.3 μm region

Z Chu, H Zhang, Y Wu, C Zhang, J Liu, J Yang - Optics Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
We demonstrate a passively Q-switched solid-state laser operating at the central wavelength
of 1342 nm based on gold nanobipyramids (Au-NBPs) as saturable absorber (SA) for the …

Growth, structure, spectral properties and crystal-field analysis of monoclinic Nd: YNbO4 single crystal

S Ding, Q Zhang, J Gao, W Liu, J Luo, D Sun… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2016 - Elsevier
A Nd: YNbO 4 single crystal was successfully grown by Czochralski (Cz) method, its
structural and spectroscopic properties were investigated. The X-ray rocking curve of the …

11-watt single-frequency 1342-nm laser based on multi-segmented Nd:YVO4 crystal

Q Shen, XY Cui, MC Yan, U Eismann, T Yuan… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
High power continuous-wave (CW) single-frequency 1342 nm lasers are of interest for
fundamental research, particularly, for laser cooling of lithium atoms. Using the popular Nd …

Red light pumped Ho3+: YLF laser at 1195.8 nm

W Yuan, R Fang, H Xu, Z Cai - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
We demonstrated a near-infrared laser at 1195.8 nm in a Ho 3+(0.5 at.%): YLF crystal for the
first time, with the upper energy level of 5 I 6, and a 640 nm red laser was used as pump …

Crystal growth and laser properties of gradual concentration Nd-doped yttrium aluminum garnet serial crystals

R Dou, L Huang, Y Liu, J Gao, X Wang, D Zhang… - Optics & Laser …, 2024 - Elsevier
The laser crystals of Nd: YAG and Nd: GdYAG with gradual concentration were grown
successfully by a Kyropoulos Similar Method. The concentration of boule part of the three …

Subnanosecond 1.3-μm laser for generating picosecond pulses in the long-wavelength infrared range

YP Yang, JY Lee, FY Su, H Chu, J Wang - Applied Physics B, 2024 - Springer
We report the development of a seeded diode-pumped 1338-nm Nd: YAG amplifier which
delivers 400-ps, 6-mJ, single-frequency pulses every half second with a fluctuation of∼ …