DPSS Question: What input wavelength?

[Wizzard]

Title correction: PSS question, not DPSS

Hey guys!! Lurking forever, I know. Joined a while back.

I've begun working on my mini-PSS laser (ND:Glass with Xenon flashtubes)... I have the flash tubes and the unit nearly assembled, but then I started thinking...

What particular wavelength(s) of the Xenon flashtube excite the neodymium into lasing? Is it the 1064nm? Any more efficient flash tubes recommended?

 

[udanis]

This might help

 

[Wizzard]

Hurr durr I'm getting my terminology mixed up. My laser is just PSS and I'm pumping it with Xenon flashtubes, not a laser diode.

 

[udanis]

Hurr durr I'm getting my terminology mixed up. My laser is just PSS and I'm pumping it with Xenon flashtubes, not a laser diode.

Sorry, I just saw dpss and went and got those pictures

 

[ElektroFreak]

The Nd:Glass pump absorption peak is at 802nm, so whenever the lamp flashes it's 802nm content is what pumps the Nd to an excited state.