Chromium ion valence transformations in Cr,Ca:YAG used for passive Q-switching

Revital Feldman; Yehoshua Shimony; Zeev Burshtein

doi:10.1117/12.483711

16 June 2003 Chromium ion valence transformations in Cr, Ca:YAG used for passive Q-switching

Revital Feldman, Yehoshua Shimony, Zeev Burshtein

Proceedings Volume 4970, Laser Crystals, Glasses, and Nonlinear Materials Growth and Characterization; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.483711
Event: High-Power Lasers and Applications, 2003, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Composite laser devices of passively Q-switched Nd:YAG were prepared by optical contacting of a Ca,Cr:YAG crystal onto a Nd:YAG wafer, followed by thermal treatments at elevated temperatures. Thermal treatments of the composite devices under reducing and/or oxidizing environments enabled to control the Cr⁴⁺ ion concentration, which affects its absorption saturation behavior. Optical absorption saturation measurements on partialy reduced Ca,Cr:YAG crystal revealed that residual absorption of the saturable absorber at 1064 nm results from excited-state absorption. Laser damage measurements at the gain/absorber interface of the monolithic device showed that the damage threshold at the gain/absorber interface of the composite device is higher than at the entrance interface. The high optical quality device thus obtained was end-pumped by a fiber-optic-coupled diode laser, and exhibited a high repetition-rate oscillations of short pulses, with fair beam quality.

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Revital Feldman, Yehoshua Shimony, and Zeev Burshtein "Chromium ion valence transformations in Cr, Ca:YAG used for passive Q-switching", Proc. SPIE 4970, Laser Crystals, Glasses, and Nonlinear Materials Growth and Characterization, (16 June 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.483711

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