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