Generating picosecond pulses from Q-switched microchip lasers
- Butler, Alex C
- Spence, David J
- Coutts, David W
Publication date
January 2011
DOI Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Abstract
A semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) is used as an end mirror in a solid state microchip laser cavity to generate Q-switched pulses of 22 ps duration. A numerical model based on the rate equations is used to predict the output of such a laser based on various parameters, such as cavity length and SESAM properties, and potential designs are constructed and tested.3 page(s
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