scholarly journals A diode-pumped high-repetition-frequency passively Q-switched Nd:LaMgAl11O19 laser

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Xu ◽  
Ziye Gao ◽  
Guangqiong Xia ◽  
Zhengmao Wu

High-repetition-frequency Q-switched laser is realized through adopting a Nd:LaMgAl11O19 (Nd:LMA) disordered crystal as the gain material, a laser diode lasing at 796 nm as the pumped source, and a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) as the Q-switched device. The output characteristics are analyzed under using different transmittance T plane mirrors as an output coupler. Without adopting SESAM, the laser is operating at a CW state, and a relatively high transmittance is helpful for achieving high output power, slope efficiency and light-to-light efficiency. For T = 7.5% and an absorbed power of 6.17 W, the output power arrives at its maximum of 1160 mW, and the corresponding slope efficiency and light-to-light efficiency are 20.71% and 18.78%, respectively. After introducing SESAM into the cavity, the laser operates at a passively Q-switched state, and the largest slope efficiency is 13.14% under T = 5.0%. Adopting five different output couplers, with the increase of the absorbed power, the pulse repetition frequencies, the pulse energies and the peak powers will ascend while the pulse widths will decline. The observed narrowest pulse width, the maximum pulse repetition frequency, the highest pulse energy and peak power are 1.745 μs, 175.88 kHz, 3.21 μJ and 1.84 W, respectively.

2012 ◽  
Vol 531 ◽  
pp. 181-184
Author(s):  
Hui Hua Xu ◽  
Xing Yu Zhang ◽  
Qing Pu Wang ◽  
Xiao Han Chen ◽  
Cong Wang ◽  
...  

A diode-pumped actively Q-switched eye-safe intracavity Raman laser with ceramic Nd:YAG gain medium and BaWO4 Raman crystal is demonstrated for the first time. The highest average output power of 0.76 W is obtained at a pulse repetition frequency of 30 kHz and a pump power of 11.3 W. The corresponding conversion efficiency from the diode pump power to Raman output power is 6.7%. The highest pulse energy of 38.1 µJ is obtained at a pulse repetition frequency of 15 kHz and a pump power of 7.8 W, and the corresponding peak power is 4.9 kW.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (15) ◽  
pp. 5040
Author(s):  
Silvia Ronda Peñacoba ◽  
Mar Fernández Gutiérrez ◽  
Julio San Román del Barrio ◽  
Francisco Montero de Espinosa

Despite the use of therapeutic ultrasound in the treatment of soft tissue pathologies, there remains some controversy regarding its efficacy. In order to develop new treatment protocols, it is a common practice to carry out in vitro studies in cell cultures before conducting animal tests. The lack of reproducibility of the experimental results observed in the literature concerning in vitro experiments motivated us to establish a methodology for characterizing the acoustic field in culture plate wells. In this work, such acoustic fields are fully characterized in a real experimental configuration, with the transducer being placed in contact with the surface of a standard 12-well culture plate. To study the non-thermal effects of ultrasound on fibroblasts, two different treatment protocols are proposed: long pulse (200 cycles) signals, which give rise to a standing wave in the well with the presence of cavitation (ISPTP max = 19.25 W/cm2), and a short pulse (five cycles) of high acoustic pressure, which produces a number of echoes in the cavity (ISPTP = 33.1 W/cm2, with Pmax = 1.01 MPa). The influence of the acoustic intensity, the number of pulses, and the pulse repetition frequency was studied. We further analyzed the correlation of these acoustic parameters with cell viability, population, occupied surface, and cell morphology. Lytic effects when cavitation was present, as well as mechanotransduction reactions, were observed.


Author(s):  
Iakov Kornev ◽  
Sergei Preis

AbstractWastewaters polluted with non-biodegradable volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as aromatic substances, present a growing problem meeting no adequately affordable technological response. Low-temperature plasma generated in the gas-phase pulsed corona discharge (PCD) presents competitive advanced oxidation technology in abatement of various classes of pollutants, although the process parameters, the pulse repetition frequency and the liquid spray rate, require optimization. The experimental research into aqueous benzene oxidation with PCD was undertaken to establish the impact of the parameters to the energy efficiency. The oxidation reaction was found under the experimental conditions to mostly proceed in the gas phase showing little influence of the pulse repetition frequency and the gas-liquid contact surface. Oxidation of benzene and, presumably, other volatile pollutants in the volume of PCD reactor compartment presents an effective strategy of aqueous VOCs abatement.


2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 906-915 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kupnik ◽  
A. Schroder ◽  
P. O'Leary ◽  
E. Benes ◽  
M. Groschl

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