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An Actively Mode-Locked Ho:YAG Solid-Laser Pumped by a Tm-Doped Fiber Laser |
| Bao-Quan Yao, He Li, Xiao-Lei Li, Yi Chen, Xiao-Ming Duan**, Shuang Bai, Hong-Yu Yang, Zheng Cui, Ying-Jie Shen, Tong-Yu Dai |
National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001
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Bao-Quan Yao, He Li, Xiao-Lei Li et al 2016 Chin. Phys. Lett. 33 044205 |
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Abstract An actively mode-locked Ho:YAG laser pumped by a diode-pumped Tm-doped fiber laser is reported. For the cw operation, we obtain the maximum output power of 3.43 W with a central wavelength 2022.2 nm at the maximum incident pump power of 11.4 W, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 34.5%. The beam quality factor $M^{2}$ is 1.16, and the output beam is close to fundamental TEM$_{00}$. In the case of the CWML operation, a stable pulse train is generated with an average output power up to 3.41 W with a slope efficiency of 34.3% at the incident pump power of 11.4 W and a pulse duration of 294 ps at a repetition rate of 81.92 MHz. In addition, the maximum single pulse energy is 41.6 nJ.
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Received: 01 December 2015
Published: 29 April 2016
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42.55.Rz
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(Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers)
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78.55.Hx
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(Other solid inorganic materials)
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42.60.Fc
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(Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)
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