100 mJ/100 Hz Mid-IR laser source

Author

Kalintsev, A.G. ; Katsev, U.V. ; Kornev, A.F. ; Narivonchik, A.S. ; Oborotov, D.O. ; Pavlova, A.L. ; Pokrovskyi, V.P. ; Serebryakov, V.A. ; Stupnikov, V.K. ; Terekhov, S.S.

Author_Institution

S.I. Vavilov State Opt. Inst., Open Joint Stock Co., St. Petersburg, Russia

fYear

2014

fDate

June 30 2014-July 4 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Two pulsed lasers: 1.064 μm Nd:YAG and 2.05 μm Ho:YLF were used to pump KTP OPA and ZGP OPO/OPA system. The result laser source provided 100 mJ/ 100 Hz output in 3.5-5 μm range with the beam quality M² ~ 5-8. The conversion efficiency achieved values up to 70% for KTP OPA and 40% for ZGP OPA.

Keywords

holmium; holmium alloys; infrared sources; laser beams; neodymium; optical parametric amplifiers; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; solid lasers; KTP OPA system; YAG:Nd; YLF:Ho; ZGP OPO-OPA system; energy 100 mJ; frequency 100 Hz; holmium:yttrium lithium fluoride pulsed lasers; laser beam quality; midinfrared laser source; neodymium:YAG pulsed lasers; optical parametric amplifier; optical parametric oscillator; optical pumping; wavelength 1.064 mum; wavelength 2.05 mum; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Solid-state laser; middle-infrared; parametric oscillator and amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Laser Optics, 2014 International Conference

Conference_Location

Saint Petersburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3884-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LO.2014.6886223

Filename

6886223