Active/passive Q-switching operation of 2  μm Tm,Ho:YAP laser with an acousto-optical Q-switch/MoS2 saturable absorber mirror

Linjun Li; Xining Yang; Long Zhou; Wenqiang Xie; Yunlong Wang; Yingjie Shen; Yuqiang Yang; Wenlong Yang; Wei Wang; Zhiwei Lv; Xiaoming Duan; Minghua Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000614

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 6, 614(2018)

Active/passive Q-switching operation of 2 μm Tm,Ho:YAP laser with an acousto-optical Q-switch/MoS₂ saturable absorber mirror

Linjun Li^1,3、*, Xining Yang^1,4, Long Zhou^1,4, Wenqiang Xie¹, Yunlong Wang¹, Yingjie Shen^2,8, Yuqiang Yang⁵, Wenlong Yang⁵, Wei Wang⁴, Zhiwei Lv^3,9, Xiaoming Duan⁶, and Minghua Chen⁷

Author Affiliations

¹Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics and Laser Technology, Heilongjiang Institute of Technology, Harbin 150050, China

²School of Opto-Electronic Information Science and Technology, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, China

³School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China

⁴The Higher Educational Key Laboratory for Measuring & Control Technology and Instrumentations of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

⁵College of Sciences, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

⁶National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

⁷Key Laboratory of Engineering Dielectric and Applications, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

⁸e-mail: Yingjieyj@163.com

⁹e-mail: ZhiweiLV@hebut.edu.cn

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Linjun Li, Xining Yang, Long Zhou, Wenqiang Xie, Yunlong Wang, Yingjie Shen, Yuqiang Yang, Wenlong Yang, Wei Wang, Zhiwei Lv, Xiaoming Duan, Minghua Chen, "Active/passive Q-switching operation of 2 μm Tm,Ho:YAP laser with an acousto-optical Q-switch/MoS₂ saturable absorber mirror," Photonics Res. 6, 614 (2018)

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Feb. 26, 2018

Accepted: Apr. 6, 2018

Published Online: Jul. 2, 2018

The Author Email: Linjun Li (LLJ7897@126.com)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000614

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