A Continuous-Wave Diode-Side-Pumped Tm:YAG Laser with Output 51W

Chin. Phys. Lett.

2008, Vol. 25

Issue (10): 3673-3675 DOI:

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A Continuous-Wave Diode-Side-Pumped Tm:YAG Laser with Output 51W

ZHANG Xiao-Fu^1,2, XU Yi-Ting^1,2, LI Cheng-Ming¹, ZONG Nan^1,2, XU Jia-Lin¹, CUI Qian-Jin^1,2, LU Yuan-Fu^1,2, BO Yong¹, PENG Qin-Jun¹, CUI Da-Fu¹, XU
Zu-Yan¹

¹Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190²Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190

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ZHANG Xiao-Fu, XU Yi-Ting, LI Cheng-Ming et al 2008 Chin. Phys. Lett. 25 3673-3675

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Abstract A compact diode-side-pumped Tm:YAG laser is presented, which can output 51W of cw power at 2.02μm. The Tm:YAG rod is side pumped by nine diode arrays with the central wavelength of 783nm and the with bandwidth of about 2.5nm at 25°C. To decrease the thermal effect on the both ends and dissipate the heat effectively, one composite Tm:YAG rod with the undoped YAG end caps and the screw threads on the side surface of the rod is used as the laser crystal. The maximum optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of the 2.02-μm laser output is 14.2%, with a slope efficiency of 26.8%..

Keywords: 42.55.Xi 42.55.Rz

Received: 21 July 2008 Published: 26 September 2008

PACS:	42.55.Xi	(Diode-pumped lasers)
	42.55.Rz	(Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers)

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