Recent progress in mechanically Q-switched 2.94 um Er:YAG – promising pump source for 4-um room temperature Fe:ZnSe lasers

Krishna Karki; Shova Subedi; Dmitry Martyshkin; Vladimir Fedorov; Sergey Mirov

doi:10.1117/12.2546846

21 February 2020 Recent progress in mechanically Q-switched 2.94 μm Er:YAG – promising pump source for 4-μm room temperature Fe:ZnSe lasers

Krishna Karki, Shova Subedi, Dmitry Martyshkin, Vladimir Fedorov, Sergey Mirov

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Proceedings Volume 11259, Solid State Lasers XXIX: Technology and Devices; 1125913 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2546846
Event: SPIE LASE, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report laser operation of spinning mirror mechanically Q-switched (MQS), flashlamp pumped 2.94 μm Er:YAG laser depending on the angular speed of the mirror, repetition rate, size and temperature of the gain element, pulse duration and jitter of Q-switch pulses, as well as pump pulse energy. The highest output energy of 260 mJ with a pulse duration of 150 ns was realized with the use of 7×120 mm Er(50%):YAG at 5 Hz repetition rate and 4200 rad/s angular speed of the spinning mirror. The efficiency of Q-switched operation was ~50% with respect to free-running regime. Using optical triggering, the pulse jitter was measured to be smaller than 10 ns for 160 ns Q-switched pulses. Optical triggering could be used for synchronization with mode-locked laser in chirp-pulse and regenerative amplifiers. We also report on development of room temperature gain-switched Fe:ZnSe laser pumped by a radiation of MQS Er:YAG laser. The maximum output energy of 9 mJ from Fe:ZnSe laser was demonstrated using MQS Er:YAG laser as pump source.

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Krishna Karki, Shova Subedi, Dmitry Martyshkin, Vladimir Fedorov, and Sergey Mirov "Recent progress in mechanically Q-switched 2.94 μm Er:YAG – promising pump source for 4-μm room temperature Fe:ZnSe lasers", Proc. SPIE 11259, Solid State Lasers XXIX: Technology and Devices, 1125913 (21 February 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2546846

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