Title :
Impact of cascading on the efficiency of external cavity cw Raman laser
Author :
Soumya Sarang;Robert J. Williams;Ondrej Kitzler;Aaron McKay;Hadiya Jasbeer;Richard P. Mildren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. &
Abstract :
Factors affecting the output efficiency of an external cavity quasi-cw KYW Raman laser were investigated. We show that a major limit to efficiency, in addition to thermal effects, results from a cascading effect involving a secondary Raman mode of KYW at 87 cm-1.
Keywords :
"Cavity resonators","Stimulated emission","Laser excitation","Crystals","Diamonds"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376105
