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880 nm LD pumped passive Q-switched and mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser using a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber

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We report a 880 nm LD pumped passive Q-switched and mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser using a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber (SWCNT-SA). At the pump power of 7.78 W, the average out-put power of 330 mW of Q-switched and mode-locked laser with optical conversion efficiency of 4.2% was generated. The repetition rate and pulse width of the Q-switched envelope were 33 kHz and 5.6 μs, respectively. The repetition rate and pulse energy of the mode-locked pulse within the Q-switched envelope were 80 MHz and 4.1 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, L. Guo, W. Hou, X. C. Lin & J. M. Li

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

    Y. G. Wang & J. Tang

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Zhang, L., Wang, Y.G., Yu, H.J. et al. 880 nm LD pumped passive Q-switched and mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser using a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber. Laser Phys. 21, 454–458 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X11050367

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