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Passive mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser using a multi-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber

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We report a passive mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser pumped by 880 nm LD using a transmission-type multi-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber. At the pump power of 6.1 W, the average output power of 0.8 W of continuous wave mode-locked laser with optical conversion efficiency of 13.1% was generated. The repetition rate and pulse energy of the mode-locked pulse were 88 MHz and 9.1 nJ, respectively.

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  1. Laboratory of All-Solid-State Light Sources, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    L. Zhang, H. J. Yu, L. Sun, W. Hou, X. C. Lin & J. M. Li

  2. Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, China

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Zhang, L., Wang, Y.G., Yu, H.J. et al. Passive mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser using a multi-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber. Laser Phys. 21, 1382–1386 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X11150333

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