Stabilization of the repetition rate of passively Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state lasers

Ngoc Diep Lai; Marc Brunel; Fabien Bretenaker; Albert Le Floch

doi:10.1063/1.1396320

Stabilization of the repetition rate of passively Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state lasers

Ngoc Diep Lai
, Marc Brunel
, Fabien Bretenaker
, Albert Le Floch

École Polytechnique

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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Abstract

We present a simple technique to stabilize the period of the pulses emitted by passively Q-switched lasers. By slightly modulating the pump diode power, the repetition rate of a Nd³⁺:YAG laser passively Q switched by Cr⁴⁺:YAG is experimentally shown to reach a time stability of 10^-6 over 10⁶ pulses. Simulations using a rate-equation model are in close agreement with the experiments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1073-1075
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	79
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1396320
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2001

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