EFFICIENT CHROMIUM-DOPED FORSTERITE LASER WITH GAIN SWITCHING

Authors
AVTUKH AS ZHAVORONKOV NI MIKHAILOV VP
Citation
As. Avtukh et al., EFFICIENT CHROMIUM-DOPED FORSTERITE LASER WITH GAIN SWITCHING, Quantum electronics, 27(2), 1997, pp. 129-131
Citations number
13
Journal title
Quantum electronics → ACNP
ISSN journal
10637818
Volume
27
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
129 - 131
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7818(1997)27:2<129:ECFLWG>2.0.ZU;2-8
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 mu J threshold energy of the pump pulses and a slope effic iency 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.