Comparison of lasing performance of tm, ho:ylf lasers by use of single and double cavities

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2418-2421

  Arimoto, Yoshinori ^b   Nakajima, Hayato ^a   Hara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Technology Section   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNING; LASER TUNING; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MIRRORS;

DOUBLE-CAVITY LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 0006998305     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002418     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. I. F. Elder and M. J. P. Payne, “Lasing in diode-pumped Tm: YAP, Tm, Ho:YAP, and Tm, Ho:YLF, ” Opt. Commun.145, 329-339 (1998).
2. 3+: YLF crystals, ” Opt. Spectrosc. (USSR)81, 230-239 (1996).
3. C. He and D. K. Killinger, “Dual-polarization modes and selfheterodyne noise in a single-frequency 2.1-^m microchip Ho, Tm:YAG laser, ” Opt. Lett.19, 396-398 (1994).
4. 3+, ” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.28, 2619-2630 (1992).
5. F. Matsuzaka, T. Yokozawa, and H. Hara, “Saturation parameter and small-signal gain of a laser-diode-pumped Tm:YAG laser, ” Appl. Opt.37, 5710-5712 (1998).
6. A. Finch, J. H. Flint, and D. M. Rines, “2.5-Watt singlefrequency CW Tm, Ho:YLF ring laser, ” inAdvanced Solid-State lasers, S. A. Payne and C. Pollock, eds., Vol. 15 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1996), pp. 312-314.
7. J. Yu, U. N. Singh, N. P. Barnes, and M. Petros, “125-mJ diode-pumped injection-seeded Ho:Tm:YLF laser, ” Opt. Lett.23, 780-782 (1998).
8. J. P. Deyst, G. J. Koch, and M. K. Storm, “Diode-pumped single frequency Ho:Tm:YLF, ” inAdvanced Solid-State lasers, A. A. Pinto and T. Y. Fan, eds., Vol. 15 of OSA Proceedings Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1993), pp. 468-470.
9. T. Yokozawa, J. Izawa, and H. Hara, “Mode control of a Tm:YLF microchip laser by a multiple resonator, ” Opt. Commun.145, 98-100 (1998).