High power and energy generation in a Nd:YAG single-crystal fiber laser at 1834  nm

Yaqi Cai; Bin Xu; Yunshan Zhang; Qingyu Tian; Xiaodong Xu; Qingsong Song; Dongzhen Li; Jun Xu; Ivan Buchvarov

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000162

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 2, 162(2019)

High power and energy generation in a Nd:YAG single-crystal fiber laser at 1834 nm

Yaqi Cai¹, Bin Xu^1、*, Yunshan Zhang¹, Qingyu Tian¹, Xiaodong Xu^2,5, Qingsong Song², Dongzhen Li², Jun Xu³, and Ivan Buchvarov⁴

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Electronic Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China

²Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China

³School of Physics Science and Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

⁴Department of Physics, Sofia University, 5 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

⁵e-mail: xdxu79@jsnu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Nov. 8, 2018

Accepted: Dec. 6, 2018

Published Online: Feb. 19, 2019

The Author Email: Bin Xu (xubin@xmu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000162

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