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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1994),
  • paper CTuK68

Mode locking of YAG:Nd3+ laser with LiF:F2− saturable absorber in coupled cavities

P. G. Zverev, T. T. Basiev, and M. Paunonen

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Abstract

Lithium fluoride crystals with F2− color centers (CC) are well known as passive Q-switchers of neodimium lasers and as active elements of effective tunable lasers working from 1.09 to 1.27 μm.1 Excited- state lifetime of F2− CC is about 70 ns. Due to the long decay time LiF:F2− CC crystals can hardly be used for passive mode-locking of neodimium lasers. In 1983 30-m-long YAG:Nd3+ laser was passively mode locked with LiF:F2− crystal.2 The lifetime of F2− CC was comparative with cavity round trip time in this experiment.

© 1994 Optical Society of America

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