Abstract:
An investigation was made of the operation of a gain-switched chromium-doped forsterite crystal laser pumped by radiation from a quasi-cw Nd:YAG laser. Optimisation of the cavity parameters made it possible to attain a 55 μJ threshold energy of the pump pulses and a slope efficiency of 10%. Estimates were obtained of the excited-state absorption cross section at the pump frequency and of the influence of this cross section on the slope efficiency.
Citation:
A. S. Avtukh, N. I. Zhavoronkov, V. P. Mikhailov, “Efficient chromium-doped forsterite laser with gain switching”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 24:2 (1997), 134–136 [Quantum Electron., 27:2 (1997), 129–131]
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