• DocumentCode
    2893457
  • Title

    Ultra-efficient Er:YAG laser with 60 W output power at 1645 nm end-pumped by an Er-Yb co-doped fibre laser

  • Author

    Shen, D.Y. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Clarkson, W.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    30
  • Abstract
    In this paper we report an Er:YAG laser with much higher output power and higher efficiency end-pumped by a tunable cladding-pumped Er,Yb fibre laser. The laser yielded 60 W of output at 1645.3 nm for 82 W of incident pump power from the Er,Yb fibre laser at 1532 nm. The corresponding slope efficiency was 80.7% with respect to incident pump power.
  • Keywords
    erbium; fibre lasers; laser tuning; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; solid lasers; ytterbium; 1532 nm; 1645 nm; 60 W; 82 W; Er-Yb co-doped fibre laser; Er:YAG laser; YAG:Er; YAl5O12:Er; pump power; slope efficiency; tunable cladding-pumped laser; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Mirrors; Optical fiber devices; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulsed laser deposition; Pump lasers; Solid lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8974-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1567819
  • Filename
    1567819