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A Diode-Pumped 1617 nm Single Longitudinal Mode Er:YAG Laser with Intra-Cavity Etalons |
| DENG Yun, YAO Bao-Quan, JU You-Lun, DUAN Xiao-Ming, DAI Tong-Yu**, WANG Yue-Zhu |
National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001
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DENG Yun, YAO Bao-Quan, JU You-Lun et al 2014 Chin. Phys. Lett. 31 074202 |
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Abstract We demonstrate the continuous wave p-polarized single longitudinal mode (SLM) operation of an Er:YAG laser at 1617.6 nm pumped by a diode-laser with three inserted Fabry–Perot (FP) etalons at room temperature. The Brewster angle inserted FP is applied to obtain the p-polarized laser. For free running, the maximum output power is 570 mW with a pump power of 12.5 W. An incident pump power of 12.5 W is used to generate the maximum p-polarized single longitudinal mode output power of 78.5 mW, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 1.6% and an optical-to-optical efficiency of 0.61%. The beam quality M2 is measured to be 1.15 at the highest SLM output power. This stable polarized SLM oscillation is encouraging due to its application for an injection-locked system used as a master laser.
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Published: 30 June 2014
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