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The effects of temporal delay on the performance of an electro-optic Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

NUR ATHIRAH MOHD TAIB1, NORIAH BIDIN1,* , M. FAKARUDDIN SIDI AHMAD1, NURUL NADIA ADNAN1, GANESAN KRISHNAN1, SULAIMAN WADI HARUN2

Affiliation

  1. Laser Center, Ibnu Sina Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, University of Technology Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
  2. Photonic Research Center, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstract

The performances of an electro optic Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at transition line of 4F3/2→4I11/2 Stark level based on DKDP crystal is presented. The temporal delay time between the ignition of Xenon flashlamp and the Q-switched trigger signal is manipulated to determine the best performances of the Q-switched laser. The results shown that opening the Q-switching is dependent on the pumped energy. The higher the pumping energy the longer the temporal delay is desired to achieve the optimum output. However the temporal delay may remain constant if the laser is pumped with low energy. In general the performance of the Q-switched laser is found independently on the temporal delay, whereby all tested temporal delays almost have similar slope efficiency of 18%..

Keywords

Electro optic; Q-switched; temporal delay, Nd:YAG laser, DKDP crystal.

Citation

NUR ATHIRAH MOHD TAIB, NORIAH BIDIN, M. FAKARUDDIN SIDI AHMAD, NURUL NADIA ADNAN, GANESAN KRISHNAN, SULAIMAN WADI HARUN, The effects of temporal delay on the performance of an electro-optic Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 9, 5-6, May-June 2015, pp.724-729 (2015).

Submitted at: Jan. 13, 2015

Accepted at: May 7, 2015