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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1993),
  • paper CThS81

Passively mode-locked diode-pumped Nd:YLF and Nd:YAG lasers using an anti-resonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber

K. J. Weingarten, U. Keller, T. H. Chiu, and J. F. Ferguson

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Abstract

Passive mode-locking using an anti-resonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber (A-FPSA) was previously demonstrated1 using Ti:sapphire to end-pump the lasers. Diode-pumping will be required for any practical and widely utilized laser system. Here we demonstrate diode-pumped Nd:YAG and Nd:YLF lasers mode-locked with an intracavity A-FPSA. Extension of this technique to diode-pumping is nontrivial because of the lower unsaturated laser gain compared to Ti:sapphire pumping, which increases the mode-locking build-up time and the threshold for self-Q-switching.

© 1993 Optical Society of America

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