Operation of a passively mode‐locked Tm:YAG laser with tantalum aluminum carbide as a saturable absorber-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Operation of a passively mode‐locked Tm:YAG laser with tantalum aluminum carbide as a saturable absorber

Published:2023-06-05 Issue:1 Volume:66 Page:
ISSN:0895-2477
Container-title:Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
language:en
Short-container-title:Micro & Optical Tech Letters

Author:

Qi Tianqi¹,Wu Haibin¹,Li Mingfeng²,Hou Xueling²,Shen Yingjie¹²^ORCID,Duan Xiaoming²,Lu Wencheng²,Bi Yingdong²,Zhang Guomin²,Pu Zigang²,Yu Shuang¹,Zong TianHao¹,Li Linjun¹²,Yang Yuqiang³

Affiliation:

1. Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy Technology and Application, College of Measurement and Control Technology and Communication Engineering Harbin University of Science and Technology Harbin China

2. Research and Development Department Heilongjiang Longke Seed Industry Group Co. Ltd. Harbin China

3. School of Electronics and Information Engineering Guangdong Ocean University Zhanjiang China

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper, a compact diode‐pumped continuous wave (CW) and passively Q‐switched mode‐locked (QML) Tm:YAG lasers operation on the 3F4–3H6 transition is realized by using tantalum aluminum carbide (Ta4AlC3) phase ceramic (MAX) material as a saturable absorber (SA). The first stable QML operation of the mid‐infrared Tm:YAG laser at 2012.38 nm is demonstrated with a Ta4AlC3‐SA. A stable QML Tm:YAG laser was achieved when the absorption pumping power reached 14 W. Under QML mode, Tm:YAG laser generated a maximum average output power of 560 mW at 2012.38 nm with an optical‐to‐optical conversion efficiency of 4%, corresponding to a shortest pulse duration of 541 ps and a high repetition rate of 168 MHz. The experiment shows that Ta4AlC3‐SA is an attractive candidate for diode‐pumped CW and QML mid‐infrared all‐solid‐state lasers emitting around 2.0 μm.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Condensed Matter Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/mop.33776

Reference34 articles.

1. Cryogenic Tm:YAG Laser in the Near Infrared

2. Smart NIR linear and nonlinear optical nanomaterials for cancer theranostics: Prospects in photomedicine

3. Study on LD end‐pumped multi‐segment bonded Tm:YAG solid‐state laser;Liu JG;Opt Commun,2021

4. High electro-optic coefficient lead zirconate titanate films toward low-power and compact modulators

5. Nonlinear absorption property investigation into MAX phase Ti2AlC at 1.9 μm