Dispersive Tuning and Performance of a Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser

A flash lamp pumped Nd:YAG laser was tuned to 12 laser transitions from 1.052 - 1.356 μm using a dispersive resonator. Experimental results for threshold and slope efficiency of the 12 laser transitions agree quite well with a model that utilizes spectroscopically measured parameters of the 12 emission lines.