High compact, high quality single longitudinal mode hundred picoseconds laser based on stimulated Brillouin scattering pulse compression

Zhenxu Bai; Yulei Wang; Zhiwei Lu; Hang Yuan; Zhenxing Zheng; Sensen Li; Yi Chen; Zhaohong Liu; Can Cui; Hongli Wang; Rui Liu

doi:10.3390/app6010029

High compact, high quality single longitudinal mode hundred picoseconds laser based on stimulated Brillouin scattering pulse compression

Zhenxu Bai, Yulei Wang^*, Zhiwei Lu, Hang Yuan, Zhenxing Zheng, Sensen Li, Yi Chen, Zhaohong Liu, Can Cui, Hongli Wang, Rui Liu

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A high beam quality hundred picoseconds single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) laser is demonstrated based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) pulse compression and aberration compensation. Flash-lamp-pumped Q-switched Nd³⁺:Y₃Al₅O₁₂ (Nd:YAG) SLM laser with Cr⁴⁺:Y₃Al₅O₁₂] (Cr⁴⁺:YAG) as a saturable absorber is used as the seed source. By combining master-oscillator-power-amplifier (MOPA), a compact single-cell with FC-770 as working medium is generated as pulse compressor. The 7.8 ns SLM laser is temporally compressed to about 450 ps, and 200 mJ energy is obtained at 1064 nm without optical damage. The energy stability is better than 3% with beam quality factor M² less than 1.8, which makes this laser system an attractive source for scientific and industrial applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/app6010029
Publication status	Published - Jan 2016
Externally published	Yes

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picosecond laser
high energy
pulse compression
stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)

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