Title :
Room-temperature Tm:YAG ring laser with 150 mW single-frequency output power at 2.02 μm
Author :
Svelto, C. ; Freitag, I.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Elettronica e Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Italy
fDate :
1/21/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Efficient room-temperature operation of a diode-pumped Tm:YAG laser is demonstrated in a composite-cavity non-planar ring resonator. By longitudinal pumping in continuous wave operation, a single-frequency output power up to 150 mW and a multimode power greater than 0.5 W are obtained for the Tm 3H5-3H6 quasi-three-level transition at 2.02 μm
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; laser transitions; optical pumping; ring lasers; solid lasers; thulium; yttrium compounds; 150 mW; 2.02 micrometre; YAG:Tm; YAl5O12:Tm; composite-cavity non-planar ring resonator; continuous wave operation; longitudinal pumping; multimode power; quasi-three-level transition; room-temperature ring laser; single-frequency output power;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990097