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Efficient pulsed 946-nm laser emission from Nd:YAG pumped by a titanium-doped sapphire laser

Antoine HirthO. MussetJean P. BoquillonYves Lutz

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Materials sciencebusiness.industryMaterials Science (miscellaneous)Far-infrared laserSlope efficiencyTi:sapphire laserLaser pumpingLaserQ-switchingIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineeringlaw.inventionX-ray laserOpticslawDiode-pumped solid-state laserOptoelectronicsBusiness and International Managementbusiness

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Efficient pulsed room-temperature laser emission at 946 nm is obtained from a Nd:YAG rod pumped by a Ti-doped sapphire laser in the free-running mode. Three bonded YAG rods of 3-mm diameter with different Nd concentrations and active lengths were tested. A maximum output energy of 83.5 mJ at 3 Hz was obtained with a slope efficiency of 32.3% in an end-pumping configuration.

https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.37.003286