Q-switched and gain-switched Fe:ZnSe lasers tunable over 360–515 µm
Abstract
We report on room temperature gain-switched and Q-switched Fe:ZnSe lasers tunable over 3.60–5.15 µm pumped by radiation of an 2.94 µm Er:YAG laser. The maximum output energy was measured to be 5 mJ under 15 mJ of pump energy in gain-switched regime. We also demonstrated a mechanically Q-switched regime of oscillation of Fe:ZnSe lasers. This approach could be attractive for the development of high-energy short-pulse solid-state mid-IR systems operating over 3.6–5.2 µm spectral range.
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- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1509939
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1612962
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018378
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Optics Express
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Optics Express Journal Volume: 27 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Optics
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Fedorov, Vladimir, Martyshkin, Dmitry, Karki, Krishna, and Mirov, Sergey. Q-switched and gain-switched Fe:ZnSe lasers tunable over 360–515 µm. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1364/OE.27.013934.
Fedorov, Vladimir, Martyshkin, Dmitry, Karki, Krishna, & Mirov, Sergey. Q-switched and gain-switched Fe:ZnSe lasers tunable over 360–515 µm. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.013934
Fedorov, Vladimir, Martyshkin, Dmitry, Karki, Krishna, and Mirov, Sergey. Tue .
"Q-switched and gain-switched Fe:ZnSe lasers tunable over 360–515 µm". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.013934.
@article{osti_1509939,
title = {Q-switched and gain-switched Fe:ZnSe lasers tunable over 360–515 µm},
author = {Fedorov, Vladimir and Martyshkin, Dmitry and Karki, Krishna and Mirov, Sergey},
abstractNote = {We report on room temperature gain-switched and Q-switched Fe:ZnSe lasers tunable over 3.60–5.15 µm pumped by radiation of an 2.94 µm Er:YAG laser. The maximum output energy was measured to be 5 mJ under 15 mJ of pump energy in gain-switched regime. We also demonstrated a mechanically Q-switched regime of oscillation of Fe:ZnSe lasers. This approach could be attractive for the development of high-energy short-pulse solid-state mid-IR systems operating over 3.6–5.2 µm spectral range.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.27.013934},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 10,
volume = 27,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {4}
}
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