Experimental study of the pulse energy of pulsed LD-pumped acousto-optically Q-switched Tm:YAG lasers

Chunting Wu; Fei Chen; Youlun Ju

doi:10.1007/s10946-013-9335-x

Experimental study of the pulse energy of pulsed LD-pumped acousto-optically Q-switched Tm:YAG lasers

Chunting Wu^*
, Fei Chen
, Youlun Ju

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Astronautics

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Abstract

We study a pulsed LD-pumped high-energy acousto-optically (AO) Q-switched Tm:YAG laser. The output pulse energy is mainly influenced by the output energy at free running and the energy-extraction efficiency under Q-switching operation. The output energy at free running can be improved by optimizing the parameters of the pump source, laser cavity, and laser medium. We show that, in order to avoid the insufficiency or waste of the population inversion and obtain higher energy-extraction efficiency, a proper pumping width and opening time of the Q switch can be found.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	146-153
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Russian Laser Research
Volume	34
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10946-013-9335-x
State	Published - Mar 2013

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Tm:YAG
acousto-optically Q switching
diode-pumped lasers

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Experimental study of the pulse energy of pulsed LD-pumped acousto-optically Q-switched Tm:YAG lasers

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