TY - JOUR
T1 - High pulse energy passive Q-switching of a diode-pumped Tm:YLF laser by Cr:ZnSe
AU - Korenfeld, Arik
AU - Sebbag, Daniel
AU - Ben-Ami, Udi
AU - Shalom, Eran
AU - Marcus, Gilad
AU - Noach, Salman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - A passively Q-switched diode-pumped Tm:YLF laser with polycrystalline Cr:ZnSe as the saturable absorber is demonstrated for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. By using saturable absorbers with different initial transmission, the maximum pulse energy reached 4.22 mJ with peak power of 162.3 kW for a pulse duration of 26 ns. The maximum output average power amounted to 2.2 W. These results constitute significant improvement from the highest average power, pulse energy and peak power results for the PQS Tm:YLF laser to date.
AB - A passively Q-switched diode-pumped Tm:YLF laser with polycrystalline Cr:ZnSe as the saturable absorber is demonstrated for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. By using saturable absorbers with different initial transmission, the maximum pulse energy reached 4.22 mJ with peak power of 162.3 kW for a pulse duration of 26 ns. The maximum output average power amounted to 2.2 W. These results constitute significant improvement from the highest average power, pulse energy and peak power results for the PQS Tm:YLF laser to date.
KW - diode pumped solid state lasers
KW - mid infrared lasers
KW - passive Q switched lasers
KW - rare earth doped and insulator lasers
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U2 - 10.1088/1612-2011/12/4/045804
DO - 10.1088/1612-2011/12/4/045804
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AN - SCOPUS:84925427715
SN - 1612-2011
VL - 12
JO - Laser Physics Letters
JF - Laser Physics Letters
IS - 4
M1 - 045804
ER -