Abstract

TOURON, A et al. Nd: glass laser with slab geometry. An. AFA [online]. 2015, vol.26, n.1, pp.12-14. ISSN 0327-358X.

In the 2007 and 2009 AFA meetings we have reported the difficulties afforded and the partial advances obtained in order to build a solid state laser based on a thin slab of Neodymium doped Glass pumped by a diode stack laser. The purpose of these first steps was to design and operate a new ultra-short pulsed laser, taking advantage of a particular geometry for the active medium and the wide bandwidth provided by the Neodymium ion when Glass is used as the support material, in order to get pulses having very short duration. In this case we report for the first time laser emission obtained with our own design, including relevant details to get laser threshold. Laser characterization was performed recently by measuring the most important operating parameters of this configuration.

Keywords : Nd:Glass; Slab laser.

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