Duan X, Yuan J, Cui Z, Yao B, Dai T, Li J, Pan Y. Resonantly pumped actively mode-locked Ho:YAG ceramic laser at 2122.1 nm.
Appl Opt 2016;
55:1953-1956. [PMID:
26974788 DOI:
10.1364/ao.55.001953]
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Abstract
We discuss what we believe is the first continuous-wave mode-locked Ho:YAG ceramic laser. We produced a mode-locked pulse using an acousto-optic modulator. We used a 1.91 μm Tm-fiber laser as the pump source. At the incident pump power of 11.4 W, we achieved the maximum output power of 1.84 W at 2122.1 nm in a continuous-wave mode-locked regime. We obtained a short-duration pulse of 241.5 ps at a repetition frequency of 82.15 MHz and achieved the beam quality factor M² of 1.2. In addition, the maximum single pulse energy was 22.4 nJ.
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