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A linearly-polarized directly diode-pumped L-shaped Er:YAG laser at 1617 nm with average output power scaling
Author(s): Zhenzhen Yu; Mingjian Wang; Xia Hou; Weibiao Chen
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Paper Abstract

We report a linearly-polarized 1617 nm Er:YAG laser pumped by 1532 nm fiber-coupled laser diodes. An L-shaped resonator was employed incorporating two Er:YAG crystals which were pumped independently. In continuous-wave operation, a maximum output power of 7.73 W was obtained with an optical conversion efficiency of ~15.2% (versus incident pump power). To the best of our knowledge, this was the highest conversion efficiency ever demonstrated for a directly diode-pumped Er:YAG laser. In Q-switched operation, pulses with energy of 7.8 mJ and pulse duration of 80 ns were yielded at a repetition rate of 500 Hz, and the corresponding peak power was ~ 97 kW at 1617 nm.

Paper Details

Date Published: 3 February 2015
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9255, XX International Symposium on High-Power Laser Systems and Applications 2014, 925504 (3 February 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2065105
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Zhenzhen Yu, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (China)
Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Mingjian Wang, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (China)
Xia Hou, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (China)
Weibiao Chen, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (China)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9255:
XX International Symposium on High-Power Laser Systems and Applications 2014
Chun Tang; Shu Chen; Xiaolin Tang, Editor(s)

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