Title

Pump-Resonant Excitation Of The 946-Nm Nd:Yag Laser

Abstract

Pump-resonant excitation, in which a weakly absorbing gain medium is placed inside an optical cavity that is resonant at both the pump and laser wavelengths, is shown to reduce significantly the losses due to saturable absorption in a quasi-three-level, diode-pumped laser. Initial experiments, in which this technique is applied to the 946-nm Nd:YAG laser, have yielded incident threshold power levels below 1.3 mW and optical slope efficiencies exceeding 25%. © 1991 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

3-15-1991

Publication Title

Optics Letters

Volume

16

Issue

6

Number of Pages

396-398

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.16.000396

Socpus ID

84975576361 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84975576361

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