Cr:YAG

Cr⁴⁺:YAG is an excellent crystal for passively Q-switching diode pumped or lamp-pumped Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF, Nd:YVO₄, or other Nd and Yb doped lasers at a wavelength of 0.8-1.2µm. Because of its high damage threshold ( > 500MW/cm²) and being easy to be operated, it will replace LiF and Dye which are commonly used as passive Q-switching materials.

Basic Properties of Cr⁴⁺:YAG

Sinoceramics provides Cr⁴⁺:YAG with Cr⁴⁺ doping level from 0.5 – 3mol%. The size could be from 2×2 mm² with length from 0.1 – 12mm. AR-coatings and HR-coatings are also available. We can control the
transmission from 1% to 99% according to the customers’ requests.

For Cr:YAG, the pulse width of passively Q-switched lasers could be as short as 5ns for diode pumped Nd:YAG lasers and repetition as high as 10kHz for diode pumped Nd:YVO₄ lasers. Furthermore, an efficient green output at 532nm and UV output at 355nm and 266nm were generated, after a subsequent intra-cavity SHG in KTP or LBO, THG in LBO, or BBO and 4HG in BBO for diode pumped, passive Q-switched Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO₄ lasers.

Cr:YAG is also a laser crystal with tunable output from 1.35-1.6mm. It can generate ultra short pulse laser (to femtosecond pulsed) when pumped by Nd:YAG laser at 1064mm

Cr⁴⁺:YAG crystal has been demonstrated as a self-pumped phase-conjugate mirror in a nanosecond Nd:YAG high power loop resonator. It compensates not only for phase aberrations, but also for polarization aberrations induced into the loop resonator.

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