Pulse timing effects in bulk Er/Yb codoped diode-pumped eyesafe lasers

Author

Georgiou, E. ; Lazarides, N. ; Musset, O. ; Boquillon, J.P.

Author_Institution

Technol. Educ. Inst. of Crete, Heraklion

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this work, diode-pumping with appropriately modulated pulses is used to expose subtle input / output pulse-timing characteristics of Er³⁺ /Yb³⁺ systems, study their relation to laser efficiency and demonstrate some unique laser-pulse timing behavior. Er⁺³/Yb⁺³ codoped glass and YAG laser-host materials with similar concentrations (optimized for eyesafe emission in the 1.6-mum region) were studied in the same diode-pumped setup, in similar resonator configurations and analogous operating conditions.

Keywords

Q-switching; erbium; laser cavity resonators; optical glass; optical pumping; optimisation; solid lasers; ytterbium; Q-switched operation; SiO₂:Er,Yb; YAG:Er,Yb; codoped diode-pumped eyesafe lasers; eyesafe emission optimization; laser efficiency; laser output energy; pulse timing effects; resonator configurations; wavelength 1.6 mum; Delay; Diodes; Erbium; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Laser transitions; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Pump lasers; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385844

Filename

4385844