Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser at 914 nm

Pierre Blandin (1) , Frédéric Druon (1) , François Balembois (1) , Patrick Georges (1) , Sandrine Leveque-Fort (2) , M.P. Fontaine-Aupart (2)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
2 PPM - Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire

We demonstrate, for the first time, to our knowledge, a diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser, operating on the 4F3/2-4I9/2 transition of the neodymium ion at 914 nm. We obtained 8.8 ps pulses at approximately 914 nm at a repetition rate of 94 MHz, and an averaged output power of 87 mW by using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Pierre Blandin, Frédéric Druon, François Balembois, Patrick Georges, Sandrine Leveque-Fort, et al.. Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser at 914 nm. Optics Letters, 2006, 31 (2), pp.214-216. ⟨hal-00700714⟩