Diode-pumped Q-switched Tm:LuAG ring laser operation at room temperature

作者:Chen F*; Wu C T; Ju Y L; Yao B Q; Wang Y Z
来源:Laser Physics, 2012, 22(2): 371-374.
DOI:10.1134/S1054660X12020053

摘要

2-mu m lasers with high pulse energy and long pulse width of hundreds of nanoseconds are needed urgently in the accurate wind velocity lidar systems. This paper presented the acoustic-optical Q-switched Tm:LuAG laser performance in a pulsed-laser-diode end-pumping figure-eight ring resonator structure. Pulse energy and pulse width are investigated with the increasing of the incident pump energy at different repetition rate operation. Maximum energy of 3.3 mJ with the pulse width of 199 ns and 1.8 mJ with pulse width of 293 ns are obtained at the repetition rate of 20 and 50 Hz, respectively. Under Q-switched operation, the peak output wavelength is 2.022 mu m at all time, and the beam quality factors are lower than 2 times diffraction-limited measured by a knife-edge traveling method.

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