{"id":333488,"date":"2016-12-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=9c8f3d6d5160041c379f6d5c705ba08e"},"modified":"2016-12-08T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"a-simple-dpss-laser-setup-and-experiments-for-undergraduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=333488","title":{"rendered":"A simple DPSS laser setup and experiments for undergraduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced optical concepts are often thought to be out of reach when it comes to an experimental<br \/>\ndemonstration for undergraduates and secondary school students. This is not always true. Here, we<br \/>\ndiscuss the use of a diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) laser based on Nd:YVO 4 \/KTP hybrid crystals,<br \/>\nbeing also at the heart of many green laser pointers, to educate students on multiple modern optical<br \/>\nconcepts and applications thereof. This concerns not only nonlinear optics, e.g. second harmonic<br \/>\ngeneration, but also laser physics and electromagnetic wave phenomena that occur if light interacts<br \/>\nwith matter. In this contribution we primarily describe the setup of the simple Nd:YVO 4 \/KTP solid<br \/>\nstate laser system using hybrid crystals. The setup is integrated into our lab for undergraduates<br \/>\nand school students. We show that various experiments on the topics mentioned above can be performed<br \/>\nwith affordable equipment while investigating some basic laser characteristics. By st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced optical concepts are often thought to be out of reach when it comes to an experimental<br \/>\ndemonstration for undergraduates and secondary school students. This is not always true. Here, we<br \/>\ndiscuss the use of a diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) las&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}