The authors have, through careful analysis of spectroscopic data, designed and demonstrated a diode-end-pumped, quasicontinuous wave Tm:GdVO4 laser operating at 1892 nm in order to pump a Q-switched Ho:YLF laser. The Ho:YLF maximum output energy was 1.9 mJ in an 18 ns pulse, at a wavelength of 2050 nm.
Reference:
Esser MJD, Strauss H et al. 2009. Q-switched Ho:YLF Laser Pumped by a Tm:GdVO4 Laser. Middle-Infrared Coherent Sources (MICS 2009), Trouville, France, 8-12 June 2009, pp 4
Esser, M., Strauss, H. J., Koen, W., Preussler, D., Nyangaza, K., & Bollig, C. (2009). Q-switched Ho:YLF laser pumped by a Tm:GdVO4 laser. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3977
Esser, MJD, Hencharl J Strauss, WS Koen, D Preussler, K Nyangaza, and C Bollig. "Q-switched Ho:YLF laser pumped by a Tm:GdVO4 laser." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3977
Esser M, Strauss HJ, Koen W, Preussler D, Nyangaza K, Bollig C, Q-switched Ho:YLF laser pumped by a Tm:GdVO4 laser; 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3977 .
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