Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 50, Issue 12, 20210685(2021)

Hundred-watt dual-wavelength diamond Raman laser at 1.2 /1.5 μm (Invited)

Zhenxu Bai1...2, Hui Chen1,2, Zhanpeng Zhang3, Kun Wang3, Jie Ding1,2, Yaoyao Qi1,2, Bingzheng Yan1,2, Sensen Li4, Xiusheng Yan4, Yulei Wang1,2, and Zhiwei Lv12 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
  • 2Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
  • 3School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
  • 4Science and Technology on Electro-Optical Information Security Control Laboratory, Tianjin 300308, China
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    Dual-wavelength lasers with high power and high beam quality are critical to the applications such as precision spectroscopy, resonant interferometry, lidar, etc. However, limited by the intrinsic spectral and gain characteristics of currently available laser gain materials, it is difficult to realize high-power dual wavelength lasing directly from inversion lasers. To overcome this problem, nonlinear optical frequency conversion has been applied to convert the high-power laser in a conventional band to another or several hard-to-reach bands. As a third-order nonlinear effect, stimulated Raman scattering has advantages including large frequency shift, self-phase matching, and beam clean-up effect that lead to Raman laser an effective means to achieve high efficiency and high beam quality wavelength conversion. In this paper, diamond crystal that with a wide spectral transmission range (>0.23 μm), ultra-high thermal conductivity (>2 000 W·m-1·K-1) and large Raman frequency shift (1 332 cm-1) was used as the Raman gain medium. By using a 1 μm laser as pump source, dual-wavelength lasing at 1.2 and 1.5 μm was achieved based on an external cavity Raman oscillator. With a maximum steady-state pump power of 414 W, output powers up to 72 W at 1.2 μm and 110 W at 1.5 μm were obtained. This study has opened a new way to realize high-power dual-wavelength laser output.

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    Zhenxu Bai, Hui Chen, Zhanpeng Zhang, Kun Wang, Jie Ding, Yaoyao Qi, Bingzheng Yan, Sensen Li, Xiusheng Yan, Yulei Wang, Zhiwei Lv. Hundred-watt dual-wavelength diamond Raman laser at 1.2 /1.5 μm (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(12): 20210685

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    Category: Lasers & Laser optics

    Received: Jun. 20, 2021

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Feb. 9, 2022

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    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20210685

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