Chin. Phys. Lett.  2010, Vol. 27 Issue (3): 034201    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/27/3/034201
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Diode Pumped Operation of Tm,Ho:YVO4 Microchip Laser
LI Gang, YAO Bao-Quan, ZHANG Chao-Hui, WANG Qiang, WANG Yue-Zhu, JU You-Lun
National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001
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LI Gang, YAO Bao-Quan, ZHANG Chao-Hui et al  2010 Chin. Phys. Lett. 27 034201
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Abstract A cryogenic and room-temperature diode pumped Tm,Ho:YVO4 microchip laser with 0.5 mm crystal length lasing around 2μm is demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. Under cryogenic temperature of 77 K, as much as 1.2 W output and slope efficiency of 35% with respect to absorbed pump power are obtained. At temperature of 5ºC the maximum output power of 48mW is obtained at an absorbed pump power of 503 mW, representing a 9.5% optical to optical conversion efficiency. In addition, as much as 8 mW single-frequency output lasing at 2052.6 nm is achieved at room temperature of 15ºC.
Keywords: 42.55.Xi      42.60.Pk      42.72.Ai     
Received: 23 November 2009      Published: 09 March 2010
PACS:  42.55.Xi (Diode-pumped lasers)  
  42.60.Pk (Continuous operation)  
  42.72.Ai (Infrared sources)  
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