Influence of undoped YAG cap on diode-pumped composite YAG/Er:Yb:glass laser

Jan Šulc; Helena Jelínková; Karel Nejezchleb; Václav Škoda

doi:10.1117/12.909125

15 February 2012 Influence of undoped YAG cap on diode-pumped composite YAG/Er:Yb:glass laser

Jan Šulc, Helena Jelínková, Karel Nejezchleb, Václav Škoda

Proceedings Volume 8235, Solid State Lasers XXI: Technology and Devices; 82351Z (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909125
Event: SPIE LASE, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Two samples of Er-Yb doped phosphate glass were tested as a gain medium of longitudinally diode pumped laser. One sample was a simple Er:Yb:glass rod (length 2.8 mm), second sample was composite rod consisting of 2.8mm long Er:Yb:glass and 6mm long YAG crystal. Diameter of both samples was 6 mm. Dopant concentration for Er:Yb:glass was 0.75 × 10²⁰ cm⁻³ Er and 1.7 × 10²¹ cm⁻³ Yb. The goal of the experiment was to investigate an effect of the undoped YAG cap on the Er:Yb:glass laser operation. The active medium, fixed in cupreous heatsink, was placed inside the 150mm long resonator consisted of a flat pumping mirror (HR @ 1.52−1.65 μm, HT @ 0.97 μm) and curved output coupler (r = 150 mm, R = 97% @ 1.52−1.61 μm). For Er:Yb:glass pumping a fiber coupled laser diode, operating in pulsed regime, was used. The pumping pulse width, energy, and wavelength were 1 ms, 10 mJ, and 975 nm, respectively. The decrease of Er:Yb:glass laser output pulse energy with increasing pumping repetition rate was observed for both samples. In case of simple Er:Yb:glass the energy dropped from 1.4mJ to 0.6mJ after pumping duty cycle increase from 0.5% to 6 %. In case of composite YAG/Er:Yb:glass active medium the relative output energy decrease was only 20% for pumping duty cycle increase from 0.5% to 10%. This result showed that the slope of the output energy decrease with increasing duty cycle was approximately four times slower for composite active media in comparison with simple Er:Yb:glass.

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Jan Šulc, Helena Jelínková, Karel Nejezchleb, and Václav Škoda "Influence of undoped YAG cap on diode-pumped composite YAG/Er:Yb:glass laser", Proc. SPIE 8235, Solid State Lasers XXI: Technology and Devices, 82351Z (15 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.909125

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