Efficient Ho:LuLiF4 laser diode-pumped at 1.15 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 17359-17365

  Wang, Sheng Li ^a   Huang, Chong Yuan ^a   Zhao, Cheng Chun ^b   Li, Hong Qiang ^a   Tang, Yu Long ^a   Yang, Nan ^a   Zhang, Shuai Yi ^a,c   Hang, Yin ^b   Xu, Jian Qiu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^c QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; CONTINUOUS WAVE OUTPUT POWER; CROSS RELAXATION; LASER EFFICIENCY; LASER OPERATIONS; LASER-DIODE-PUMPED; LASING WAVELENGTH; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PUMPING (LASER);

DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 84880558970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.017359     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. J. W. Kim, J. I. Mackenzie, D. Parisi, S. Veronesi, M. Tonelli, and W. A. Clarkson, "Efficient in-band pumped Ho:LuLiF4 2 microm laser," Opt. Lett. 35(3), 420-422 (2010).
2. C. C. Zhao, Y. Hang, L. H. Zhang, J. G. Yin, P. C. Hua, and E. Ma, "Polarized spectroscopic properties of Ho3+-doped LuLiF4 single crystal for 2 μm and 2.9 μm lasers," Opt. Mater. 33(11), 1610-1615 (2011).
3. H. J. Strauss, W. Koen, C. Bollig, M. J. D. Esser, C. Jacobs, O. J. P. Collett, and D. R. Preussler, "Ho:YLF & Ho:LuLF slab amplifier system delivering 200 mJ, 2 μm single-frequency pulses," Opt. Express 19(15), 13974-13979 (2011).
4. M. Schellhorn, "High-energy, in-band pumped Q-switched Ho3+:LuLiF4 2 microm laser," Opt. Lett. 35(15), 2609-2611 (2010).
5. S. So, J. I. Mackenzie, D. P. Shepherd, W. A. Clarkson, J. G. Betterton, E. K. Gorton, and J. A. Terry, "Intracavity side-pumped Ho:YAG laser," Opt. Express 14(22), 10481-10487 (2006).
6. H. Chen, D. Shen, J. Zhang, H. Yang, D. Tang, T. Zhao, and X. Yang, "In-band pumped highly efficient Ho:YAG ceramic laser with 21 W output power at 2097 nm," Opt. Lett. 36(9), 1575-1577 (2011).
7. K. Scholle and P. Fuhrberg, "In-band pumping of high-power Ho:YAG lasers by laser diodes at 1.9 μm," in Proceedings of CLEO/QELS (Optical Society of America, 2008), paper CTuAA1.
8. S. Lamrini, P. Koopmann, M. Schäfer, K. Scholle, and P. Fuhrberg, "Directly diode-pumped high-energy Ho:YAG oscillator," Opt. Lett. 37(4), 515-517 (2012).
9. A. S. Kurkov, V. V. Dvoyrin, and A. V. Marakulin, "All-fiber 10 W holmium lasers pumped at λ=1.15 microm," Opt. Lett. 35(4), 490-492 (2010).
10. S. D. Jackson, F. Bugge, and G. Erbert, "Directly diode-pumped holmium fiber lasers," Opt. Lett. 32(17), 2496-2498 (2007).
11. F. Cornacchia, A. Toncelli, and M. Tonelli, "2 μm lasers with fluoride crystals: research and development," Prog. Quantum Electron. 33(2-4), 61-109 (2009).
12. C. Y. Huang, Y. L. Tang, S. L. Wang, R. Zhang, J. Zheng, and J. Q. Xu, "Theoretical modeling of Ho-doped lasers pumped by laser-diodes around 1.125 μm," J. Lightwave Technol. 30(20), 3235-3240 (2012).
13. B. M. Walsh, G. W. Grew, and N. P. Barnes, "Energy levels and intensity parameters of Ho3+ ions in GdLiF4, YLiF4 and LuLiF4," J. Phys. Condens. Matter 17(48), 7643-7665 (2005).
14. L. B. Shaw, R. S. F. Chang, and N. Djeu, "Measurement of up-conversion energy-transfer probabilities in Ho:Y3A15O12 and Tm:Y3A15O12," Phys. Rev. B 50(10), 6609-6619 (1994).
15. N. P. Barnes, B. M. Walsh, and E. D. Filer, "Ho:Ho upconversion: applications to Ho lasers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20(6), 1212-1219 (2003).
16. S. D. Jackson and T. A. King, "Theoretical model of Tm-doped silica fiber laser," J. Lightwave Technol. 17(5), 948-956 (1999).
17. T. M. Taczak and D. K. Killinger, "Development of a tunable, narrow-linewidth, CW 2.066-μm Ho:YLF laser for remote sensing of atmospheric CO2 and H2O," Appl. Opt. 37(36), 8460-8476 (1998).