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Passively Q-switched laser operation in a composite Nd:YVO4/Nd:YVO4/Nd:YVO4 crystal with a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber

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By using a piece of single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber, the performance of the passively Q-switched composite Nd:YVO4 laser has been demonstrated for the first time. The maximum average output power and the shortest pulse width are 1220 mW and 103 ns at the incident pump power of 5.04 W for a 10% transmission of the output coupler. The highest pulse repetition rate of 415.6 kHz and the largest single-pulse energy of 2.94 μJ are also obtained. The composite Nd:YVO4 crystal has more excellent laser performance than the normal Nd:YVO4 crystal at 1064 nm.

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  1. School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China

    L. Yin, G. Q. Li, S. Z. Zhao, X. Li, K. Cheng & G. Zhang

  2. Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taibei, Taiwan, China

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Yin, L., Li, G.Q., Zhao, S.Z. et al. Passively Q-switched laser operation in a composite Nd:YVO4/Nd:YVO4/Nd:YVO4 crystal with a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber. Laser Phys. 22, 111–114 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X1201029X

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