Diode-pumped high-efficiency Tm:YAG lasers

被引：72
作者：
Li, C [1 ]
Song, J
Shen, DY
Kim, NS
Ueda, K
Huo, YJ
He, SF
Cao, YH
机构：
[1] Univ Electrocommun, Inst Laser Sci, Tokyo 182, Japan
[2] Tsing Hua Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[3] Chinese Acad Sci, Anhui Inst Opt & Fine Mech, Hefei 230031, Peoples R China
来源：
OPTICS EXPRESS | 1999年 / 4卷 / 01期
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D O I：
10.1364/OE.4.000012
中图分类号：
O43 [光学];
学科分类号：
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要：
Eye-safe solid-state lasers that operate at 2 mu m wavelength have many applications in medical, remote sensing and military technologies. With a 3-W CW laser-diode pumping, we obtained 760 mW 2.01 mu m Tm: YAG laser under CW operation. The slope efficiency was 44% and the optical to optical efficiency reached 36%. In the acousto-optic Q-switched operation, laser pulses with the energy of 1.2mJ and 380 ns FWHM width have been achieved. (C) 1999 Optical Society of America.
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