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Comparison between a-cut and off-axially cut Nd:YVO4 lasers passively Q-switched with a Cr4þ:YAG crystal
Hao Chen a,c,*, E Wu a, Heping Zeng a,b,*
a Key Laboratory of Optical and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, and Department of Physics, East China Normal University,
Shanghai 200062, PR China
b School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
c Department of Physics, Xuzhou Normal University, Xuzhou 221009, PR China
Received 10 July 2003; received in revised form 12 September 2003; accepted 6 November 2003
Abstract
We experimentally compared pulsed lasers from off-axially cut and a-cut Nd:YVO4 crystals passively Q-switched by Cr4þ:YAG crystals as the intracavity saturable absorbers. As compared to the a-cut Nd:YVO4 laser, the 45 off-axially cut Nd:YVO4 laser could be Q-switched passively to output much shorter pulse width with a lower repetition rate.
Laser pulses from the off-axially cut crystal were stable in the output polarization states.
2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PACS: 42.60.Gd; 42.70.Hj; 42.55.Xi
Keywords: Q-switched; Off-axially cut; Nd:YVO4; Cr4þ:YAG |
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