PERFORMANCES OF CR-LISRALF6 AND CR-LISRGAF6 FOR CONTINUOUS-WAVE DIODE-PUMPED Q-SWITCHED OPERATION

Authors
BALEMBOIS F DRUON F FALCOZ F GEORGES P BRUN A
Citation
F. Balembois et al., PERFORMANCES OF CR-LISRALF6 AND CR-LISRGAF6 FOR CONTINUOUS-WAVE DIODE-PUMPED Q-SWITCHED OPERATION, Optics letters, 22(6), 1997, pp. 387-389
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
22
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
387 - 389
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1997)22:6<387:POCACF>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We have developed a Cr:LiSrGaF6 laser that produces, in Q-switched ope ration, four times as much energy (12 mu J at 10 kHz) as a Cr:LiSrAlF6 laser under the same conditions of pumping (four red diodes emitting 400 mW). By using a theoretical model for small-signal gain calculatio ns, we show that these better performances are mainly attributable to the fact that thermal quenching of fluorescence is lower in Cr:LiSrGaF 6 than in Cr:LiSrAlF6. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.