Short-pulse, eye-safe Nd:YAG laser using cavity-dumping |
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| Authors: | van den Heuvel JC van Putten FJM |
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| Affiliation: | TNO Phys. & Electron. Lab., The Hague; |
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| Abstract: | A short-pulse 1.444-μm laser based on Nd:YAG technology has been demonstrated. The 1.444-μm is eye-safe. With the cavity-dump technique, a pulse of 50 m× and 14 ns was obtained. The beam quality was excellent with an M2 of 1.6 by the use of a telescopic resonator. Silicon-window polarizers were used to suppress the 1.06-μm radiation but showed 1.444-μm absorption as well |
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