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Experiment and modeling of a diode-pumped 1.3 μm Nd:YVO4 laser passively Q-switched with PbS-doped glass

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A diode-pumped 1.34 μm Nd:YVO4 laser passively Q-switched with PbS quantum dots doped glass is presented. An average output power of 24 mW with a Q-switching efficiency of 13% and a Q-switched pulse width of 15 ns was obtained. A four level spectroscopic model of a PbS quantum dots doped glass saturable absorber is applied to numerically simulate passively Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser operation. It has been shown that for the simulation of passive Q-switching of 1.3 μm Nd:YVO4 lasers with PbS doped glasses as the saturable absorbers, it is necessary to take into account intensity dependence of bleaching relaxation times.

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  1. International Laser Center, bldg. 17, #65 F. Skaryna Ave., 220013, Minsk, Belarus

    V.G. Savitski, A.M. Malyarevich & K.V. Yumashev

  2. Institut für Photonik, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

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  3. J.F. Allen Research Laboratories, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK

    B.D. Sinclair

  4. S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

    H. Raaben & A.A. Zhilin

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Savitski, V., Malyarevich, A., Yumashev, K. et al. Experiment and modeling of a diode-pumped 1.3 μm Nd:YVO4 laser passively Q-switched with PbS-doped glass. Appl. Phys. B 79, 315–319 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1549-8

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