Q-switching of Nd:YAG solid-state laser with intra-cavity MEMS resonant scanning mirror

Ralf Bauer; Walter Lubeigt; Deepak G. Uttamchandani

doi:10.1109/OMEMS.2012.6318812

Q-switching of Nd:YAG solid-state laser with intra-cavity MEMS resonant scanning mirror

Ralf Bauer, Walter Lubeigt, Deepak G. Uttamchandani

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Abstract

A comb-drive actuated MEMS scanning mirror is used to actively Q-switch a side-pumped Nd:YAG laser. Minimum pulse durations of 38 ns are observed and maximum average output powers of 55 mW at 17.625 kHz pulse repetition frequency.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), 2012
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ, United States
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	81-82
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781457715112
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/OMEMS.2012.6318812
Publication status	Published - 22 Nov 2012

Keywords

active Q-switching
electrostatic MEMS scanning mirror
inta-cavity MEMS mirror
solid-state laser

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