• DocumentCode
    919604
  • Title

    Saturation factors of pump absorption in solid-state lasers

  • Author

    Sato, Yoichi ; Taira, Takunori

  • Author_Institution
    Laser Res. Center, Inst. for Molecular Sci., Okazaki, Japan
  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    270
  • Lastpage
    280
  • Abstract
    Novel models for the saturation factors of absorption under optical pumping in solid-state lasers are derived, and these factors depend on the pumping scheme. We investigated the pump saturation effect in Nd:YVO4 and found that the bleaching of pump absorption due to the depletion of a ground-state level in a direct pumping scheme was more effective than that in a conventional four-level pumping scheme. However, the saturation effect was recovered by lasing.
  • Keywords
    absorption coefficients; ground states; neodymium; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; YVO4:Nd; four-level pumping scheme; ground-state level depletion; optical pumping; pump absorption; pump absorption bleaching; saturation factors; solid-state lasers; Absorption; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Microchip lasers; Optical materials; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Stationary state;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.2003.823020
  • Filename
    1271360
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=919604