Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 18, Issue 1, 011405(2020)
Watt-level Pr3+:YLF deep red laser pumped by a fiber-coupled blue LD module or a single-emitter blue LD
Fig. 1. Power characteristic of LD module and the output spectrum at the maximum output power.
Fig. 2. Schematic diagram of Pr:YLF laser at 720.9 nm pumped by the 443.6 nm LD module.
Fig. 3. (Top) 720.9 nm laser output curves of the 6-mm-long Pr:YLF crystal. (Bottom) 10-mm-long Pr:YLF crystal pumped by the 443.6 nm LD module.
Fig. 5. (Left) Far field patterns of the laser beam recorded at different output power. (Right) Internal temperature distribution of 10-mm-long Pr:YLF crystal at 12 W absorbed power.
Fig. 6. (Top) Absorption spectrum of Pr:YLF at 444 nm and wavelength-shift of single-emitter LD. (Bottom) Schematic diagram of Pr:YLF laser pumped by a single 446 nm LD and pump beam pattern at the focus point.
Fig. 7. Output characteristics of 10-mm-long Pr:YLF pumped by single 446 nm LD. (Top) Focal length is 50 mm; (bottom) focal length is 80 mm.
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Miaomao He, Sheng Chen, Quanxin Na, Shaojuan Luo, Haiyong Zhu, Ying Li, Changwen Xu, Dianyuan Fan, "Watt-level Pr3+:YLF deep red laser pumped by a fiber-coupled blue LD module or a single-emitter blue LD," Chin. Opt. Lett. 18, 011405 (2020)
Category: Lasers and Laser Optics
Received: Sep. 10, 2019
Accepted: Oct. 16, 2019
Published Online: Dec. 30, 2019
The Author Email: Changwen Xu (chwxu@szu.edu.cn)