Diode-pumped Q-switched Tm:YAG laser in active mirror configuration

Cheng Li; Jie Song; Deyuan Shen; Nam Seong Kim; Ken-ichi Ueda

doi:10.1117/12.380938

3 April 2000 Diode-pumped Q-switched Tm:YAG laser in active mirror configuration

Cheng Li, Jie Song, Deyuan Shen, Nam Seong Kim, Ken-ichi Ueda

Proceedings Volume 3889, Advanced High-Power Lasers; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.380938
Event: Advanced High-Power Lasers and Applications, 1999, Osaka, Japan

Abstract

Compared with one-pass pumped system, diode laser two-pass pumped Tm:YAG lasers in an active mirror configuration will result in a 24% decrease in threshold and 16% increase in slope efficiency. Using a 3-W diode-laser as the pump source, we demonstrated CW and AO Q-switched Tm:YAG lasers in an active mirror configuration. The maximum output power in CW operation exceeded 765 mW and the corresponding slope efficiency reached 45%. In the AO Q-switched operation, we obtained 1.2 mJ output energy with a pulse width of 370 ns when the repetition rate was 120 Hz.

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Cheng Li, Jie Song, Deyuan Shen, Nam Seong Kim, and Ken-ichi Ueda "Diode-pumped Q-switched Tm:YAG laser in active mirror configuration", Proc. SPIE 3889, Advanced High-Power Lasers, (3 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.380938

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