• DocumentCode
    448116
  • Title

    Efficient room temperature cw laser oscillation of crystalline Yb:Sc2O3 at 1041.6 and 1094.6 nm

  • Author

    Liu, J. ; Rico, M. ; Griebner, U. ; Petrov, V. ; Peters, V. ; Petermann, K. ; Huber, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    930
  • Abstract
    Extremely high pump (62.2%) and slope (72.7%) efficiencies are obtained with a cw Yb:Sc2O3 crystal laser operating at 1041.6 and 1094.6 nm and delivering maximum powers of 1.55 and 1.35 W, respectively, without special cooling.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; optical materials; optical pumping; scandium compounds; solid lasers; ytterbium; 1.35 W; 1.55 W; 1041.6 nm; 1094.6 nm; Sc2O3:Yb; crystalline laser material; efficient room temperature cw laser oscillation; Crystallization; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Laser transitions; Nonlinear optics; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Temperature; Thermal conductivity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.201979
  • Filename
    1573045