Title :
Recent developments in scaling output energy from erbium-based lasers and their uses as pump sources for MWIR & LWIR OPOs
Author :
Shori, Ramesh K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
TEM00 Q-switched outputs of >100 mJ at 2.94 μm was generated using a dual rod oscillator. The output from the laser was used to pump ZGP, CdSe, and AgGaSe2 OPOs to generate output in the 3.5-12 μm spectral regions.
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; Q-switching; cadmium compounds; erbium; fluorescence; gallium compounds; germanium compounds; infrared spectra; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; silver compounds; solid lasers; ternary semiconductors; zinc compounds; 2.94 mum; 3.5 to 12 mum; AgGaSe2; CdSe; LWIR OPO; MWIR OPO; TEM00 Q-switched outputs; YAG:Er; YAl5O12:Er; ZnGeP2; dual rod oscillator; erbium-based lasers; pump sources; Absorption; Dentistry; Erbium; Fluorescence; Laser excitation; Optical resonators; Oscillators; Power engineering and energy; Pump lasers; Remote sensing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363485
