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

Baoquan Yao; Xiaoming Duan; Yufeng Li; Liangliang Zheng; Yuezhu Wa; Guangjun Zhao; Jun Xu

doi:10.3788/COL20080607.0520

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 6, Issue 7, 520(2008)

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

Baoquan Yao^1、*, Xiaoming Duan¹, Yufeng Li¹, Liangliang Zheng¹, Yuezhu Wa¹, Guangjun Zhao², and Jun Xu²

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¹National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001

²Laser and Optoelectronic Functional Material R and D Center, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800

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We report a continuous-wave (CW) 2.1-\mum Ho:YAG laser operating at room temperature pumped by a diode-pumped 1.94-\mum 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-Ho conversion efficiency of 5.6%.

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140.3070 140.3480 140.5680 Ho:YAG 140.3580 Tm:YAP

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Baoquan Yao, Xiaoming Duan, Yufeng Li, Liangliang Zheng, Yuezhu Wa, Guangjun Zhao, Jun Xu, "Continuous-wave operation of a room-temperature Tm:YAP-pumped Ho:YAG laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 6, 520 (2008)

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Paper Information

Received: Dec. 5, 2007

Accepted: --

Published Online: Jul. 11, 2008

The Author Email: Baoquan Yao (yaobq08@hit.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL20080607.0520

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

Laser physics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology