530-mW 7-kHz cerium LiCAF laser pumped by the sum-frequency-mixed output of a copper-vapor laser

Authors
McGonigle, AJS Coutts, DW Webb, CE
Citation
Ajs. Mcgonigle et al., 530-mW 7-kHz cerium LiCAF laser pumped by the sum-frequency-mixed output of a copper-vapor laser, OPTICS LETT, 24(4), 1999, pp. 232-234
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
01469592 → ACNP
Volume
24
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
232 - 234
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(19990215)24:4<232:57CLLP>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We report, for what we believe to be the first time, a Ce:LiCAF laser pumpe d by ultraviolet radiation obtained by sum-frequency mixing of the green an d the yellow output from a copper-vapor laser. The 7-kHz pulse repetition f requency free-lasing Ce:LiCAF laser yielded a maximum output power of 530 m W, with a slope efficiency of 32%, from a pump power of 1.9 W. With a singl e prism tunability from 280.5 to 316 nm was achieved. (C) 1999 Optical Soci ety of America. OCIS codes: 140.0140, 140.1340, 140.3580, 140.3600, 140.361 0.