{"title":"Q-switching of Nd:YAG solid-state laser with intra-cavity MEMS resonant scanning mirror","authors":"R. Bauer, W. Lubeigt, D. Uttamchandani","doi":"10.1109/OMEMS.2012.6318812","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":347863,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OMEMS.2012.6318812","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.