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  • Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 16,
  • Issue 5,
  • pp. 051401-
  • (2018)

Highly efficient CW laser operation in 4 at. % Tm3+ and 4 at. % Y3+ codoped CaF2 crystals

Xinsheng Guo, Qinghui Wu, Linyang Guo, Fengkai Ma, Fei Tang, Cheng Zhang, Jie Liu, Bingchu Mei, and Liangbi Su

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Abstract

Tm:CaF2 and Tm,Y:CaF2 single crystals were prepared by the temperature gradient technique. The spectral properties of Tm,Y:CaF2 single crystals were investigated and compared with those of Tm:CaF2. It was demonstrated that codoping with Y3+ ions could efficiently improve the spectroscopic properties. Tm,Y:CaF2 crystals have larger absorption cross-sections at the pumping wavelength, larger mid-infrared stimulated emission cross-sections, and much longer fluorescence lifetimes of the upper laser level (Tm3+: H43 level) than Tm:CaF2 crystals. Continuous-wave (CW) lasers around 1.97 μm were demonstrated in 4.0 at. % Tm,4.0 at. % Y:CaF2 single crystals under 792 nm laser diode (LD) pumping. The best laser performance has been demonstrated with a low threshold of 0.368 W, a high slope efficiency of 54.8%, and a maximum output power of 1.013 W.

© 2018 Chinese Laser Press

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