Single longitudinal mode lasing of Tm,Ho:YAP microchip laser at 2000.4 nm

Single-longitudinal-mode operation of a b-cut Tm(5%), Ho(0.3%):YAlO₃ microchip laser is reported. An incident pump power of 1.85 W is used to generate the maximum single-frequency output power of 30 mW at 2000.4 nm, which represent a 1.6% optical-to-optical conversion efficiency. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time to report on single-frequency operation in Tm,Ho:YAP lasers.     

Room temperature single-frequency output at 2118 nm from a diode-pumped Tm,Ho:YAP laser

A diode end-pumped single-frequency Tm, Ho:YAP laser at room temperature was reported. We demonstrated a single-frequency Tm, Ho:YAP laser at 2118.09 nm wavelength with output power up to 57 mW using two Fabry-Perot intracavity etalons. The optical conversion efficiency is 2.0% and the slope efficiency is 12.7%. The measured full width at half maximum linewidth was <7.5 pm limited by the resolution of the scanning Fabry-Perot etalon used to make the measurement. The wavelength was demonstrated to be stable to about 2 pm over 40 s time periods limited by the temperature stability of the laser. The single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) laser can be used as a seed laser for coherent wind measurements and differential absorption LIDAR systems.     

Room temperature single-frequency output from a diode-pumped Tm,Ho:YAP laser

Single-frequency operation in the range of 2102.45-2102.54 nm and 2130.72-2130.82 nm is demonstrated from a Tm,Ho:YAP laser at room temperature. To our knowledge, this is the first time a room temperature single-frequency Tm,Ho:YAP laser of up to 72.6 mW at 2102.5 nm with Fabry-Perot etalons has been obtained. Regulating the elevation angle of the two etalons, 42.0 mW at 2130.8 nm was obtained. The single-longitudinal-mode laser can be used as a seed laser for coherent wind measurements and differential absorption lidar systems.     

Room temperature diode-pumped Tm,Ho:YAP laser with double etalons

A diode end-pumped single-frequency Tm,Ho:YAP laser at room temperature was reported. We obtain a single frequency Tm,Ho:YAP laser of up to 31 mW with Fabry-Perot etalons in the cavity at 2130.8 nm. The optical conversion efficiency is 1.0% and the slope efficiency is 6.3%. The measured full width at half maximum (FWHM) is approximately 65 pm. The single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) laser can be used as a seed laser for coherent wind measurements and differential absorption LIDAR systems.     

Diode-pumped room temperature single longitudinal mode lasing of Tm,Ho:YLF microchip laser at 2050.5 μm

Room-temperature operation of a single longitudinal-mode c-cut Tm(6%), Ho(0.4%):YLF microchip laser is reported. An incident pump power of 713 mW is used to generate the maximum single-frequency output power of 17 mW at 2050.5 nm, which corresponds to the slope efficiency of 10%.     

Diode-pumped single longitudinal mode lasing of Tm,Ho:YLF microchip laser

Short resonant cavity which owns broad free spectral range is useful to select single-frequency. We take Tm,Ho:YLF (Tm 6%; Ho 0.4%) microchip pumped by diode laser to attain high efficiency single-longitudinal-mode laser. Both end faces are coated. The microchip is the oscillate cavity itself. It’s placed in the Dewar flask, which is filled with liquid nitrogen to keep the temperature at 77 K. Comparison of the laser characteristics between a 0.9 mm microchip and a 0.5 mm microchip were expressed in this report. The maximum single-longitudinal-mode power are 33 and 76 mW, corresponding the slope efficiency of both lasers are 12 and 37%, separately. The beam quality is about 1.06 and 6.8 for 0.9 mm microchip and 0.5 mm microchip, measured by the knife-edge method.     

Diode pumped operation of tm,Ho:YAP microchip laser

Single-wave length operation of a c-cut Tm (5%), Ho (0.3%):YAP microchip laser pumped by a fiber-coup led diode-laser was reported. Under cryogenic temperature, the output power of 188 mW was obtained under the incident power of 2230 mW, corresponding to the slope efficiency was 12.2%. As much as 168 mW output and slope efficiency of 5.7% was obtained under the pump power of 3400 mW at 291 K. In addition, a maximum single-wave length output power of 60 mW at wavelength of 2130.2 nm and 14 mW at wavelength of 2102.4 nm is demonstrated under 77 and 291 K, respectively.     

Q-switch operation of a c-cut 2132-nm Tm, Ho:YAP laser pumped by a laser diode of 794.3 nm

Q-switch operation of a c-cut Tm (5 at %), Ho (0.3 at %):YAP laser at 2132 nm wavelength were reported in this paper. In the temperature of 77 K, the Tm, Ho:YAP crystal was double end-pumped by a 21.4-W fiber-coupled laser diode (LD) at the center wavelength of 794.3 nm. A 5.29-W Q-switch output power was acquired at pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 10 kHz, corresponding to an optical-optical conversion efficiency of 24.7% and a slope efficiency of 28.1%. The energy per pulse of 3.57 mJ in 38 ns was achieved at 1.25 kHz with the peak power of 93.9 kW.     

Highly-Efficient Ho:S<Subscript>i</Subscript>Sc<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>5</Subscript> Laser Pumped by a Narrow Line-Width Tm:YAP Laser at 1.94 <Emphasis Type="Italic">μ</Emphasis>m

We present a highly-efficient continuous-wave Ho:SSO laser pumped by a diode-pumped Tm:YAP laser with a narrow linewidth (NL) of 0.3 nm. With the free-running (FR) Tm:YAP laser, we obtain a maximum output power of 2.23 W at an absorption pump power of 7.2 W, corresponding to an optical conversion efficiency of 31% and a slope efficiency of 42.6%. With the NL Tm:YAP laser, we obtain a maximum output power of 2.88 W at the same absorption pump power. The optical conversion efficiency increases to 40% when the slope efficiency increases to 55.5%. The output linewidth of the Ho:SSO laser is 0.8 nm when we use the Tm:YAP laser with a narrow linewidth of 1.8 nm pumped by a FR Tm:YAP laser. The beam quality also changes from 1.31 to 1.22.     

6.17-W continuous wave operation of a 2132-nm c-cut Tm,Ho:YAP pumped by a laser diode of 794.3 nm

Continuous wave (CW) operation of a c-cut Tm (5 at %), Ho (0.3 at %):YAP laser at 2132 nm wavelength were reported in this paper. In the temperature of 77 K, the Tm,Ho:YAP crystal was double end-pumped by a 21.4 W fiber-coupled laser diode (LD) at the center wavelength of 794.3 nm. Different resonator lengths and output couplers for the total pump power were tried. The resonator length was 205 mm, and the maximum CW output power of 6.17 W was acquired, corresponding to an optical-optical conversion efficiency of 28.8% and a slope efficiency of 35.6%.     

Continuous wave and AO Q-switch operation of a b-cut Tm,Ho:YAP laser with dual wavelengths pumped by a laser diode of 792 nm

Continuous wave (CW) and AO Q-switch operation of a b-cut Tm,Ho:YAP laser with dual wavelengths were reported in this paper. In the temperature of 77 K, the b-cut Tm,Ho:YAP crystal was double endpumped by a 7.21-W fiber-coupled laser diode (LD) at the center wavelength of 792 nm. A 1.17-W Q-switch output power was acquired at pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 10 kHz, corresponding to an effective optical-optical conversion efficiency of 25.9% and an effective slope efficiency of 31.5%. The energy per pulse of 0.46 mJ in 100 ns was achieved at 2.5 kHz with the peak power of 4.6 kW.     

激光二极管纵向抽运（Tm，Ho）：YLF激光器的研究

对激光二极管端面抽运(Tm，Ho)：YLF固体激光器的激光特性进行了研究。根据激光二极管抽运准三能级系统的特性，详尽地分析了能量在Tm^3 离子和Ho^3 离子之间的传递过程，给出了(Tm，Ho)：YLF激光器准三能级的速率方程，对上转换及激光下能级粒子再吸收对激光二极管抽运(Tm，Ho)：YLF激光器运转的影响进行了理论分析，得出了(Tm，Ho)：YLF激光器的阈值抽运功率和斜率效率的解析表达式。同时对(Tm，Ho)：YLF微片激光器的激光特性进行了实验研究，当保持晶体温度为19℃时，阈值抽运功率为425mW，斜率效率为22．5％，最大光—光转换效率为17．4％，并且在将晶体保持在四个不同的温度下，给出了激光输出功率随抽运功率变化的实验结果。将理论与实验结果进行比较，发现吻合得比较好。     

A comparative study on diode-pumped continuous wave Tm:Ho:YVO<Subscript>4</Subscript> and Tm:Ho:GdVO<Subscript>4</Subscript> lasers

In this paper, we presented experimental results concerning on the laser characteristics of two microchip lasers emitting in the 2 μm range, Tm:Ho:YVO₄ microchip laser and Tm:Ho:GdVO₄ microchip laser. At a heat sink temperature of 283 K, the maximum output power of Tm:Ho:YVO₄ laser and Tm:Ho:GdVO₄ laser is 47 and 34 mW under absorbed pump power of 912 mW, respectively. High efficiency can be achieved for both lasers at room temperature. Nevertheless, compared with Tm:Ho:GdVO₄ laser, Tm:Ho:YVO₄ laser can operate on single frequency with high power easily. At the heat sink temperature of 288 K, as much as 16.5 mW of 2052.3 nm single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) laser was achieved for Tm:Ho:YVO₄ laser. Under the same condition, only 8 mW of 2048.5 nm SLM laser was achieved for Tm:Ho:GdVO₄ laser.     

High efficient double end-pumped <Emphasis Type="Italic">b</Emphasis>-cut Tm,Ho:YAlO<Subscript>3</Subscript> laser

High efficient continuous wave (CW) and acousto-optical (AO) Q-switched operation of a b-cut Tm,Ho:YAlO₃ (Tm,Ho:YAP) laser are reported in the paper. The Tm,Ho:YAP crystal was cooled by liquid nitrogen and pumped by a fiber-coupled laser diode (LD). Different pump wavelengths were tried in the experiment. An 8.36-W output power was acquired at 2.12 μm in the CW operation with an optical-optical conversion efficiency of 33.3%, and an 8.14-W average power was obtained at the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 10 kHz with an optical-optical conversion efficiency of 32.4%.     

High power and efficiency of a 2044-nm c-cut Tm, Ho:YAlO3 laser

A high power and efficiency of c-cut Tm, Ho:YAlO₃ (YAP) laser is reported in the paper. The laser operated in continuous wave (CW) mode or Acousto-optical (AO) Q-switched mode at 2044 nm. The Tm, Ho:YAP crystal was cooled at the temperature of 77 K and pumped by a fiber-coupled laser diode (LD) with the centre output wavelength of 794.8 nm. In CW operation, a 9.30-W output power was obtained at a 150-mm physical cavity length, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 42.5%. In Q-switch mode, the output average power of 9 W was achieved at the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 10 kHz with a 130-ns pulse width. Moreover, the energy per pulse of 3.54 mJ in 47 ns was acquired at 2.5 kHz with a 75.3-kW peak power.     

LD抽运Cr,Tm,Ho∶YAG微片激光器单纵模运转特性的研究

研究了LD抽运的单纵模Cr,Tm,Ho∶YAG微片激光器,激光器厚度为1?mm,在用波长785?nm的LD进行端面抽运时,激光器阈值为1060?mW,单纵模激光最大输出功率为31?mW. 对激光器输出功率随温度变化特性进行了研究,验证了CTH∶YAG晶体的温度敏感性. 还研究了激光器的温度调谐特性,实验测得激光器的温度调谐系数为14?GHz/℃. 关键词： 激光光学 CTH∶YAG微片激光器 LD抽运 单纵模运转     

A high efficiency Ho:YAlO<Subscript>3</Subscript> laser pumped by Tm:YLF laser with a Volume Bragg Grating

We report a CW Ho:YAlO₃ (Ho:YAP) laser at room temperature pumped by a Tm:YLF laser with a Volume Bragg Grating (VBG) instead of the conventional mirror. The Ho:YAP laser operated at 2117.9 nm with output power 9.12 W. The optical-to-optical conversion efficiency is 60.4% and slope efficiency is 71.2%. The Ho:YAP output wavelength is centered at 2117.9 nm with bandwidth of about 1 nm. The beam quality factor is M ² ∼ 1.29 measured by the traveling knife-edge method.     

Continuous-wave operation of a room-temperature Tm: YAP-pumped Ho: YAG laser

We report a continuous-wave (CW) 2.1-μm Ho:YAG laser operating at room temperature pumped by a diode-pumped 1.94-?m Tm:YAP laser.The maximum output power of 1.5 W is obtained from Ho:YAG laser,corresponding to Tm-to-Ho slope efficiency of 17.9% and diode-to-He conversion efficiency of 5.6%.     

Q-switched operation of <Emphasis Type="Italic">a</Emphasis>-cut Ho:YAlO<Subscript>3</Subscript> laser pumped by a diode-pumped 1.91 μm thulium laser

Q-switched operation of a room temperature Ho:YAP laser was resonantly end-pumped by a diode-pumped Tm:YLF laser at 1.91 μm. The CW Ho:YAP laser generated 9.9 W of linearly output at 2119.03 nm with beam quality factor of M ² ∼1.46 with respect to absorbed pump power of 19.16 W, corresponding to an optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 51.7% and slope efficiency of 60.6%. Under Q-switched operation, the maximum output power of 9.8 W in relation to 10 kHz pulse repetition frequency (PRF) was obtained, however, the maximum peak power of 60 kW at the PRF of 5 kHz was demonstrated. At 5 kHz pulse energies of 1.92 mJ with pulse width of 32 ns was achieved.     

Laser characteristics of 2-µm microchip Tm,Ho:Lu<Subscript>2</Subscript>SiO<Subscript>5</Subscript> laser

Cryogenic temperature operation of a 〈010〉-cut microchip Tm,Ho:Lu₂SiO₅ laser end-pumping by a fiber-coupled laser-diode is presented. A 2.73 W absorbed pump power is used to generate a maximum laser output of 470 mW, representing a 17.2% optical-to-optical conversion efficiency and a 61.7% slope efficiency corresponding to absorbed power. In the experiment, the oscillating wavelength shifting from 2.03 to 2.08 μm has been observed and a single 2.03 μm wavelength oscillation has obtained. To our knowledge, this work is the first time to investigate the Cryogenic temperature operation of microchip Tm,Ho:Lu₂SiO₅.