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Lasers

Longitudinally diode-pumped ytterbium-erbium glass minilaser

L. O. Byshevskaya-Konopko, I. L. Vorob'ev, A. A. Izyneev, P. I. Sadovskii

Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Fryazino Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The prototype of a passively Q-switched, longitudinally diode-pumped erbium glass laser is fabricated. A slope efficiency of 38% is achieved in the free-running lasing regime. It is shown that a pump energy of only 42 mJ is required to generate a 9-ns, 1.8-mJ output pulse with efficiency 4.2%.

PACS: 42.55.Rz, 42.55.Xi, 42.60.Lh

Received: 12.05.2004

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2004, 34:9, 809–811

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