Meng, D.; Wang, T.; Zhou, M.; Qiao, Z.; Liu, X.; Fan, Z. High Repetition, TEM00 mode, Compact Sub-Nanosecond 532nm Laser. Preprints2022, 2022030033. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202203.0033.v1
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Meng, D., Wang, T., Zhou, M., Qiao, Z., Liu, X., & Fan, Z. (2022). High Repetition, TEM<sub>00</sub> mode, Compact Sub-Nanosecond 532nm Laser. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202203.0033.v1
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Meng, D., Xiao-Long Liu and Zhong-Wei Fan. 2022 "High Repetition, TEM<sub>00</sub> mode, Compact Sub-Nanosecond 532nm Laser" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202203.0033.v1
Abstract
As a critical transmitter, the compact 532 nm lasers operating on high repetition and narrow pulse widths have been used widely for airborne or space-borne laser active remote sensing. We developed a free space pumped TEM00 mode sub-nanosecond 532 nm laser that occupied a volume of less than 125 mm × 50 mm × 40 mm (0.25 liters). The fundamental 1064 nm laser consists of a passively Q-switched composite crystal microchip laser and an off-axis, two-pass power amplifier. The pump sources were two single-emitter semiconductor laser diodes (LD) of 808 nm with a maximum continuous wave (CW) power of 10 W each. The average power of fundamental 1064 nm laser was 1.26 W with the laser operating at 16 kHz repetition rates, and 857ps pulse widths. Since the beam distortion would be severe in microchip lasers in terms of the increase in heat load, for obtaining a high beam quality of 532 nm, the beam distortion was compensated by adjusting the distribution of pumping beam in our experiment of fundamental amplification. Furthermore, better than 0.6 W average power, 770 ps, beam quality of M2 ＜1.2, and 16 kHz pulse output at 532 nm was obtained by a Type I LiB3O5 (LBO) crystal in the critical phase matching (CPM) regime for second harmonic generation (SHG).
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