Tunable diode-pumped and frequency-doubled Cr:LiSAF lasers
| Autor: | Kevin J. Snell, Pierre Laperle, Réal Vallée, Pierre Galarneau, Alain Chandonnet |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Multi-mode optical fiber
Materials science business.industry Materials Science (miscellaneous) Energy conversion efficiency Laser Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering law.invention Crystal chemistry.chemical_compound Optics chemistry law Fiber laser Optoelectronics Lithium triborate Business and International Management business Laser beams Diode |
| Zdroj: | Applied optics. 36(21) |
| ISSN: | 1559-128X |
| Popis: | The performance of a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser and its intracavity frequency-doubled operation is reported. Close to 1 W of quasi-cw power at 870 nm was obtained in multimode operation. Power in excess of 20-mW cw of TEM(00) second-harmonic power at 435 nm has also been obtained by using a lithium triborate crystal with an infrared-to-visible conversion efficiency of 33%. This result is believed to be the highest yet reported for a true cw blue output from a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF system. However, the maximum attainable output power was limited by thermal fluorescence quenching. The effect of the pump size on the temperature rise and on the small-signal gain is investigated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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