Author, as appears in the article.: Serres, Josep Maria; Loiko, Pavel; Mateos, Xavier; Yumashev, Konstantin; Kuleshov, Nikolai; Petrov, Valentin; Griebner, Uwe; Aguilo, Magdalena; Diaz, Francesc
Department: Química Física i Inorgànica
URV's Author/s: Aguiló Díaz, Magdalena / Díaz González, Francisco Manuel / Mateos Ferré, Xavier / Serres Serres, Josep Maria
Keywords: Ytterbium Ybcagdalo4 laser Thermal-lens Power Operation Klu(wo4)(2) Growth Double tungstate lasers Diode Cut Continuous-wave
Abstract: The concept of Yb-doped double tungstate microchip lasers is verified and scaled to the multi-watt power level. The active element is a 2.6 mm-thick Yb:KLuW crystal cut along the N-g optical indicatrix axis. Maximum continuous-wave output power of 4.4 W is extracted at 1049 nm with a slope efficiency of 65% and an optical-to-optical efficiency of 44% with respect to the absorbed pump power. The laser emission is linearly polarized and the intensity profile is characterized by a near-circular TEM00 mode with M-x,y(2) < 1.1. Due to low intracavity losses of the microchip laser, laser operation at wavelengths as long as 1063 nm is achieved. The mechanism of the thermal mode stabilization in the microchip cavity is confirmed. At very low resonator losses polarization-switching between E parallel to N-m and N-p oscillating states is observed and explained on the basis of spectroscopic and thermal lens characteristics. (C)2015 Optical Society of America
Thematic Areas: Química Optics Materials science, multidisciplinary Materiais Interdisciplinar Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Electronic, optical and magnetic materials Biotecnología Astronomia / física
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: josepmaria.serres@urv.cat magdalena.aguilo@urv.cat xavier.mateos@urv.cat f.diaz@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-4299-538X 0000-0001-6130-9579 0000-0003-1940-1990 0000-0003-4581-4967
Record's date: 2024-10-19
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Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Optical Materials Express. 5 (3): 661-667
APA: Serres, Josep Maria; Loiko, Pavel; Mateos, Xavier; Yumashev, Konstantin; Kuleshov, Nikolai; Petrov, Valentin; Griebner, Uwe; Aguilo, Magdalena; Diaz, (2015). Prospects of monoclinic Yb:KLu(WO4)(2) crystal for multi-watt microchip lasers. Optical Materials Express, 5(3), 661-667. DOI: 10.1364/OME.5.000661
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2015
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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