• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.98-102
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• 2001

To analyze the saturating process of $Cr^{4+}:YAG$ crystal and plastic organic dye as the saturable absorber, we have measured the residual optical losses between a free running and a passive Q-switching mode for various optical densities. The undepleted ground state population density and the saturated transmission of the saturable absorber have been evaluated by the additional optical losses with the increased threshold pump energies between two resonators. ill the passive Q-switching mode, the saturable transmission of saturable absorber is less than the maxrnium saturable transmission due to the undepleted ground state population density. nsity.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.308-309
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• 2000

Nd:YAG 레이저의 수동적 Q-switching을 위해서는 대부분 유기물인 dye를 포화흡수체로 이용해 왔으나, 장시간 사용시 dye 분자의 결합이 끓어지면서 생기는 photodegradation으로 인하여 안정성에 많은 문제를 가지고 있다. 최근에 Cr$^{4+}$ :YAG 단결정의 물리적인 특성과 열적 안정성이 밝혀지면서 Nd:YAG 레이저의 Q-switching용 포화흡수체로 대치되고 있다[1]. 본 실험에서는 Z-Scan 방법을 이용하여 입사광의 세기에 따른 Cr$^{4+}$ :YAG 단결정의 흡수변화를 측정하였으며, 또한 Cr$^{4+}$ :YAG 단결정의 성장이 진행될수록 결정성장 길이에 따라 Cr 이온의 농도가 낮아지는 현상이[2] 발생하는데 두가지 서로 다른 결정화분률에 대해서 비선형 흡수를 비교하였다. (중략)

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.117-121
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• 2011

We propose a saturable absorber reflector based on guided-mode resonance. A carbon nanotube is used as a saturable absorber. By tuning the fill factor, modulation depth can be increased without a change of height of the CNT. We investigate the reflector properties such as modulation depth, bandwidth and peak reflectance as a function of the height of the CNT and the fill factor. The advantage of the proposed reflector is that it can reduce saturation energy by 50 times compared with CNT thin film of 100~200nm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.329-332
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• 2001

In this paper, it's shown that the saturable absorber Nd:LSB has a capability as a saturable absorber in Q-switching system. In the passively Q-switched 1.3${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ Nd:YAG laser with saturable absorber, we theoretically investigated the optimized output mirror, peak power, output power, pulse width and output efficiency. The passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser with saturable absorber Nd:LSB gives peak power of 30MW and pulse width of 6.23 ps at 30cm resonator length and output mirror reflectivity 98%. Consequently the output energies are 143, 200 and 209 $\mu$J at loss of 2.2%, 2.1% and 1.5%, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.351-355
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• 2017

In this paper, we conduct a simulation of manipulating various pulsed laser operations through tuning the modulation depth of the saturable absorber in a laser cavity. The research, showing that various pulsed operations could be manipulated from Q-switching through Q-switched mode locking to mode locking by tuning the modulation depth of the saturable absorber in a cavity, has been studied by experimental means. We conduct a simulation with the Haus master equation to verify that these experimental results are consistent with expectations from theory. The time dependence of the gain was considered to express Q-switching fluctuation through applying a rate equation with the Haus master equation. Laser operation was manipulated from mode locking through Q-switched mode locking to Q-switching as modulation depth was increased, and this result agreed well with the theoretical expectation.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.340-346
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• 2002

To understand the characteristics of the passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser output energy with $Cr^{4+}$:YAG saturable absorbers, the transmissions of $Cr^{4+}$:YAG and the inversion population densities of Nd:YAG at the onset of Q-switch were experimentally analysed. The measured transmissions at the onset of Q-switch were 0.70$\pm$0.02 and 0.62$\pm$0.02 for the 0.48 and 0.38 of initial transmission, respectively. It means that the initial transmission loss of $Cr^{4+}$:YAG absorber is reduced in a low Q-state due to the initial absorbing effect of $Cr^{4+}$:YAG. In pumping stage, $Cr^{4+}$:YAG has absorbing processes due to the fluorescence and amplified spontaneous emissions of the Nd:YAG even if there is no laser oscillation. The minimum population inversion densities for Qswitch were approximately 3.7${\times}{10^{17}}$ and 4.0${\times}{10^{17}}$ $cm^{-3}$, respectively. At the beginning of Q-switch, the number density of $Cr^{4+}$ions in the ground state of $Cr^{4+}$:YAG was approximately 1.4${\times}{10^{17}}$ $cm^{-3}$ and the ratio of the ground to the excited state of absorbing $Cr^{4+}$ions was 0.44 both. The modified theoretical output energies with the initial absorbing effect were 18 and 18.5 mJ. The measured output energies were 17$\pm$1 and 18$\pm$1.5 mJ, respectively. The quantum extraction efficiencies of Q-switch were 0.32 both. The theoretical Q-switched output results with the initial absorbing effect of the saturable absorber are a good agreement with the experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.24-25
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• 2009

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.90-94
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• 2014

We propose a Yb:YAG laser Q-switched by a semiconductor saturable absorber and a laser output coupler composed of a polarizer and a quarter-wave plate, and we investigate the output characteristics of the proposed Q-switched laser. We show that the laser power can be varied by rotation of the quarter-wave plate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.46-53
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• 2002

A novel ultra-narrow linewidth single longtudinal mode DFB semiconductor laser in the extended FBG cavity is proposed. The 3㏈ linewidth of 20KHz was demonstrated by using self-heterodyne measurement set-up with a fiber delay line of 63km. And this linewidth was further compressed to less than 3KHz, which is resolution limited performance, by inserting E $r^{+3}$ doped fiber saturable absorber. This is equivalent to 3㏈ linewidth of 2$\times$10$^{-8}$ nm.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.119-120
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• 2008