Title :
High power Er+3-Yb+3 co-doped glass waveguide Q-switched laser
Author :
Yeniay, A. ; Delavaux, J.-M.P. ; Toulouse, J. ; Barbier, D. ; Strasser, T.A. ; Pedrazanni, J.R.
Author_Institution :
Lewis Lab., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA
fDate :
10/9/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Using a Q-switched Er+3-Yb+3 co-doped glass waveguide laser, the authors have obtained 67 W peak power and 200 ns wide optical pulses with a pulse energy of 13.4 μJ for a 7 m long cavity at a 1 kHz repetition rate. The dependence of the pulsewidth on the cavity length has also been investigated, and indicated that integration of this laser in a 10 cm long cavity would provide 2 ns wide optical pulses with 7 kW peak power
Keywords :
Q-switching; erbium; laser cavity resonators; optical planar waveguides; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; ytterbium; 1 kHz; 10 cm; 13.4 muJ; 2 ns; 200 ns; 67 W; 7 kW; 7 m; cavity length; optical pulses; peak power; planar waveguides; pulse energy; repetition rate; waveguide Q-switched laser;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19971185
