Giant-Pulse Width Tunable System based on Composite Nd:YAG/Cr:YAG Ceramic Microchip Laser

Hwan Hong Lim; Takunori Taira

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3 Optics and Photonics » 3.5 Laser system and materials

[20p-S224-1~19] 3.5 Laser system and materials

Sun. Mar 20, 2016 1:45 PM - 6:45 PM S224 (S2)

Minoru Yoshida(Kinki Univ.), Atsushi Sato(Tohoku Institute of Technology)

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

▲ [20p-S224-2] Giant-Pulse Width Tunable System based on Composite Nd:YAG/Cr:YAG Ceramic Microchip Laser

〇Hwan Hong Lim¹, Takunori Taira¹ (1.IMS)

Keywords:Microchip laser,Q switching,Ceramic

We present a giant-pulse width tunable laser by cavity length control. The tuning range of pulse width is from 0.5 to 9 ns and the peak powers of the pulses are over 0.5 MW up to 6 MW. Its characteristics and application to air-breakdown are presented in detail.