Diode-pumped Yb,Er:glass laser passively Q switched with a V 3+:YAG crystal

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1704-1708

  Zolotovskaya, Svetlana A ^a   Yumashev, Konstantin V ^a   Kuleshov, Nikolay V ^a   Sandulenko, Alexander V ^b  

^a BELARUSIAN NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^b VAVILOV STATE OPTICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; RANGE FINDING; REFLECTION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; YTTERBIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVES (CW); DIODE PUMPING; FRESNEL LOSSES; SPHERICAL MIRRORS;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 15944423927     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001704     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. J. F. Philipps, T. Topfer, H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem, D. Ehrt, R. Sauerbrey, and N. F. Borrelli, "Diode-pumped erbiumytterbium-glass laser passively Q-switched with a PbS semiconductor quantum-dot doped glass," Appl. Phys. B 72, 175-178 (2001).
2. V. G. Shcherbitsky, A. V. Podlipensky, N. V. Kuleshov, V. I. Levchenko, V. N. Yakimovich, A. Diening, M. Mond, E. Heumann, S. Kuck, and G. Huber, "Passive Q-switches for diode-pumped Yb,Er:glass laser," in Proceedings of the European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference Focus Meeting 2001 (European Physical Society, Mulhouze, France, 2001), p. 51.
3. B. Denker, B. Galagan, V. Osiko, S. Sverchkov, G. Karlsson, F. Laurell, V. Pasiskevichus, and J. Tellefsen, "Passive Q-switched 1.54 micron Yb-Er glass microchip lasers," Europhys. Conf. Abstr. 27E, JS1-1-4-FRI (2003).
4. G. Karlsson, F. Laurell, J. Tellefsen, B. Denker, B. Galagan, V. Osiko, and S. Sverchkov, "Development and characterization of Yb-Er laser glass for high average power laser diode pumping," Appl. Phys. B 75, 41-46 (2002).
5. 2+:ZnSe saturable-absorber Q switches for 1.54-μm Er: glass lasers," Opt. Lett. 24, 960-962 (1999).
6. Ph. Thony, B. Ferrand, and E. Molva, "1.55 μm passive Q-switched microchip laser," in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, W. R. Bosenberg and M. M. Fejer, eds., Vol. 19 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1998), pp. 150-154.
7. 2+-doped oxide crystals," J. Alloys Compd. 341, 366-370 (2002).
8. 4 crystal," Appl. Phys. B 70, 179-184 (2000).
9. R. D. Shultz, D. S. Sumida, and H. Bruesselbach, "Diode-pumped, passively Q-switched, 10 Hz eyesafe Er:Yb:glass laser," in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, S. A. Payne and C. R. Pollock, eds., Vol. 1 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1996), pp. 448-450.
10. R. Wu, S. J. Hamlin, J. A. Hutchinson, and L. T. Marshall, "Laser diode pumped, passively Q-switched erbium:glass laser," in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, C. R. Pollock and W. R. Bosenberg, eds., Vol. 10 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1997), pp. 145-147.
11. R. D. Stultz, M. B. Camargo, M. Birnbaum, and M. Kokta, "Divalent uranium and cobalt saturable absorber Q-switches at 1.5 μm," in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, B. H. T. Chai and S. A. Payne, eds., Vol. 24 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1995), pp. 460-464.
12. 2+:ZnSe saturable absorbers," Opt. Mater. 15, 285-291 (2001).
13. R. Fluck, U. Keller, E. Gini, and H. Melchior, "Eyesafe pulsed microchip laser," in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, W. R. Bosenberg and M. M. Fejer, eds., Vol. 19 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1998), pp. 146-149.
14. R. Haring, R. Paschotta, E. Gini, H. Melchior, and U. Keller, "Sub-nanosecond pulses from passively Q-switched microchip lasers at 1.53 μm," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1999), pp. 518-519.
15. 2) in yttrium aluminum garnet," Opt. Mater. 2, 267-272 (1993).
16. A. M. Malyarevich, I. A. Denisov, K. V. Yumashev, V. P. Michailov, R. S. Conroy, and B. D. Sinclair, "V:YAG - a new passive Q-switch for diode-pumped solid-state lasers," Appl. Phys. B 67, 555-558 (1998).
17. A. V. Podlipensky, K. V. Yumashev, N. V. Kuleshov, H. M. Kretshmann, and G. Huber, "Passive Q-switching of 1.44 μm and 1.34 μm diode-pumped Nd:YAG lasers with a V:YAG saturable absorber," Appl. Phys. B 76, 245-247 (2003).
18. 3+:YAG saturable absorber," Opt. Commun. 194, 429-433 (2001).
19. A. S. Grabtchikov, A. N. Kuzmin, V. A. Lisinetskii, V. A. Orlovich, A. A. Demidovich, K. V. Yumashev, N. V. Kuleshov, H. J. Eichler, and M. V. Danailov, "Passive Q-switched 1.35 μm diode-pumped Nd:KGW laser with V:YAG saturable absorber," Opt. Mater. 16, 349-352 (2001).
20. S. Hamlin, J. Myers, and M. Myers, "High repetition rate Q-switched erbium glass lasers," in Eyesafe Lasers: Compo nents, Systems, and Applications, A. M. Johnson, eds., Proc. SPIE 1419, 100-106 (1991).
21. A. Szabo and R. A. Stein, "Theory of laser giant pulsing by a saturable absorber," J. Appl. Phys. 36, 1562-1566 (1965).
22. W. Koechner, Solid State Laser Engineering, 5th ed. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999), p. 27.
23. M. Mond, A. Diening, E. Heumann, and G. Huber, "Diode-endpumped 1.5 μ m Er,Yb:glass laser," in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, H. Injeyan, U. Keller, and C. Marshall, eds., Vol. 34 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2000), pp. 212-217.