Highly efficient dual-wavelength acousto-optically <i>Q</i>-switched Tm,La:CaF<sub>2</sub> laser

Qianqian Hao; Wenxin Liu; Yuqian Zu; Yangxiao Wang; Jie Liu; Liangbi Su

doi:10.3788/COL202220.111402

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 11, 111402(2022)

Highly efficient dual-wavelength acousto-optically Q-switched Tm,La:CaF₂ laser

Qianqian Hao1... Wenxin Liu1, Yuqian Zu1, Yangxiao Wang2,3, Jie Liu1,*, and Liangbi Su23,** |Show fewer author(s)

¹Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

²State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China

³Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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