Performance of 2 μm Tm:YAP pulse laser based on a carbon nanotube absorber

被引：30

作者：

Qu, Zunshi ^{[1
]}

Wang, Yonggang ^{[2
]}

Liu, Jie ^{[1
]}

Zheng, Lihe ^{[3
]}

Su, Liangbi ^{[3
]}

Xu, Jun ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Shandong Normal Univ, Coll Phys & Elect, Shandong Prov Key Lab Opt & Photon Device, Jinan 250014, Peoples R China

[2] Acad Sinica, Res Ctr Appl Sci, Taipei 30010, Taiwan

[3] Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Inst Ceram, Key Lab Transparent & Optofunct Inorgan Mat, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS | 2012年 / 109卷 / 01期

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

PUMPED TM-YAP; HIGH-POWER; DIODE; THULIUM;

D O I：

10.1007/s00340-012-5122-6

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrated the first use of carbon nanotube as a saturable absorber in the Q-switched and Q-switched mode-locking of a diode pumped Tm:YAP operating at 2 mu m. At the incident pump power of 8.64 W, the minimum Q-switched pulse width of 255.1 ns, and the maximum peak power 53.1 W can be obtained with the corresponding repetition rate of 21.76 kHz. The performance of a diode-pumped passively Q-switched mode-locked Tm:YAP laser with high repetition rate formed with a folded cavity. As high as 780 mW average output power was produced in QML laser. The repetition rate of the mode-locked pulse inside the Q-switched envelope was 244.1 MHz. The dependence of the operational parameters on the pump power was also investigated experimentally.

引用

页码：143 / 147

页数：5

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