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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

F. Bammer, R. Petkovsek, M. Frede, B. Schulz:
"Q-switching with a Dual Mode Single Crystal Photo-Elastic Modulator";
Talk: GCL/HPL 2008, Lissabon; 09-15-2008 - 09-19-2008; in: "Proceedings of GCL 08, XVII International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers and High-Power Lasers", SPIE Proc., 7131 (2008), ISBN: 9780819473653; 7131H-1 - 7131H-4.



English abstract:
We present experimental results with a 10W-Nd:YVO4-laser, which is Q-switched with a single crystal photo-elastic modulator made of LiTaO3. This allows a simple setup driven by voltage amplitudes in the order of 10 V. We observed stable and unstable pulse sequences. In stable operation a 127 kHz - pulse sequence with 70ns pulse width and 1100 W peak power was achieved, while the average power remained constant at 10W.

German abstract:
We present experimental results with a 10W-Nd:YVO4-laser, which is Q-switched with a single crystal photo-elastic modulator made of LiTaO3. This allows a simple setup driven by voltage amplitudes in the order of 10 V. We observed stable and unstable pulse sequences. In stable operation a 127 kHz - pulse sequence with 70ns pulse width and 1100 W peak power was achieved, while the average power remained constant at 10W.

Keywords:
Photo-elastic modulators, Q-switching, LiTaO3


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.816691


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