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Nanosecond-pulsed Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm with a gold nanotriangle saturable absorber

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Gold nanotriangles (GNTs) were successfully employed as a saturable absorber (SA) to achieve passively Q-switched lasers for the first time. The performance of the Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm has been systematically investigated. The corresponding shortest pulsewidth, the threshold pump power and the maximum Q-switched average output power were 275.5 ns, 1.37 W, and 171 mW, respectively. To our knowledge, this is the shortest pulsewidth and the lowest threshold in a passively Q-switched laser at approximately 1.1 µm based on a gold nanoparticle SA (GNPs-SA). Our experimental results proved that the GNTs-SA can be used as a promising saturable absorber for nanosecond-pulsed lasers.

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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61475086) and the Foundation of Shandong Province Natural Science (ZR2015FM018 and ZR2014FM028).

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    Xiaohan Chen, Ping Li, Yangyang Dun, Teng Song & Baomin Ma

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Chen, X., Li, P., Dun, Y. et al. Nanosecond-pulsed Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm with a gold nanotriangle saturable absorber. Appl. Phys. B 124, 92 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-018-6952-7

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