Efficient Ho:YAG laser pumped by a cladding-pumped tunable Tm:silica-fibre laser

Highly efficient room-temperature operation of a Ho:YAG laser end pumped by a cladding-pumped tunable Tm-doped silica-fibre laser operating at 1905 nm is reported. Using a simple two-mirror resonator configuration, we obtained 6.4 W of unpolarized output at 2097 nm in a diffraction-limited TEM00 bea...

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Main Authors: Shen, D.Y (Author), Abdolvand, A. (Author), Cooper, L.J (Author), Clarkson, W.A (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2004-07-07.
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