Co spinel Q-Switch crystal
Co spinel——saturable absorbers for the passive Q-switching of solid-state lasers operating at eye-safe wavelength of 1.5 μm
Lasers emitting at 1.5µm are of great interest for several industrial applications. This interest is, first of all, due to eye-safety of 1.5-µm radiation. Other advantages of this wavelength are high transparency in atmosphere and fused-silica wave guides and availability of sensitive room temperature light detectors(Ge and InGaAs photo diodes).All this makes 1.5µm lasers very attractive for applications in range-finder, environmental sensing, telecommunications, surgery,etc. Co:Spinel absorption peak is close to 1520nm,which is most used in eye-safe laser. The absorption cross-section at 1520nm is 3.5×10-19cm2 and at 1331 is 2.8×10-19cm2,it has reported as Q-switch crystal for Er,Yb Glass and Nd:GYSGG,Nd:YALO3.
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