Hot-pressed ceramic Fe:ZnSe gain-switched laser

Karki, Krishna; Yu, Shengquan; Fedorov, Vladimir; Martyshkin, Dmitry; Subedi, Shova; Wu, Yiquan; Mirov, Sergey

doi:10.1364/OME.410941

Title: Hot-pressed ceramic Fe:ZnSe gain-switched laser

Abstract

We report the first room temperature gain-switched Fe:ZnSe hot-pressed ceramic laser pumped by 2.94 µm radiation of mechanically Q-switched Er:YAG laser. The maximum output energy at 4.2 µm was 41 mJ at 3 Hz repetition rate and 120 ns pulse duration. The measured slope efficiency was 25% with respect to the absorbed energy. This technique could be attractive for the future development of high-energy short-pulse solid-state mid-IR systems.

Authors:

Karki, Krishna; Yu, Shengquan;

;

; Subedi, Shova; Wu, Yiquan;

Publication Date:: Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2020

Research Org.:: Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL (United States); Alfred Univ., NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

OSTI Identifier:: 1842386

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1852622

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018378; FA9550-13-1-0234; N00014-17-1-2548; P42ES027723

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Optical Materials Express

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Optical Materials Express Journal Volume: 10 Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2159-3930

Publisher:: Optical Society of America

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 42 ENGINEERING; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; optics

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                    Karki, Krishna, Yu, Shengquan, Fedorov, Vladimir, Martyshkin, Dmitry, Subedi, Shova, Wu, Yiquan, and Mirov, Sergey. Hot-pressed ceramic Fe:ZnSe gain-switched laser.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
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                    Karki, Krishna, Yu, Shengquan, Fedorov, Vladimir, Martyshkin, Dmitry, Subedi, Shova, Wu, Yiquan, & Mirov, Sergey. Hot-pressed ceramic Fe:ZnSe gain-switched laser.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.410941

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                    Karki, Krishna, Yu, Shengquan, Fedorov, Vladimir, Martyshkin, Dmitry, Subedi, Shova, Wu, Yiquan, and Mirov, Sergey. Tue .  
"Hot-pressed ceramic Fe:ZnSe gain-switched laser".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.410941.

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@article{osti_1842386,

  title        = {Hot-pressed ceramic Fe:ZnSe gain-switched laser},

  author       = {Karki, Krishna and Yu, Shengquan and Fedorov, Vladimir and Martyshkin, Dmitry and Subedi, Shova and Wu, Yiquan and Mirov, Sergey},

  abstractNote = {We report the first room temperature gain-switched Fe:ZnSe hot-pressed ceramic laser pumped by 2.94 µm radiation of mechanically Q-switched Er:YAG laser. The maximum output energy at 4.2 µm was 41 mJ at 3 Hz repetition rate and 120 ns pulse duration. The measured slope efficiency was 25% with respect to the absorbed energy. This technique could be attractive for the future development of high-energy short-pulse solid-state mid-IR systems.},

  doi          = {10.1364/OME.410941},

  journal      = {Optical Materials Express},

  number       = 12,

  volume       = 10,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2020},

  month        = {Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2020}

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