Author, as appears in the article.: Dupont, H; Guillemot, L; Loiko, P; Solé, RM; Mateos, X; Aguiló, M; Díaz, F; Braud, A; Camy, P; Georges, P; Druon, F
Department: Química Física i Inorgànica
URV's Author/s: Aguiló Díaz, Magdalena / Díaz González, Francisco Manuel / Mateos Ferré, Xavier / Solé Cartañà, Rosa Maria
Keywords: Thulium lasers wavelength up-conversion tmylf tm3+ mu-m emission crystal and-mu,m
Abstract: We study a cascade laser scheme involving the 3H4 → 3H5 and 3F4 → 3H6 consecutive transitions in Tm3+-doped materials as a promising technique to favor laser emission at 2.3 µm. We examine the conditions in terms of the Tm3+ doping levels for which the cascade laser is beneficial or not. For this, Tm:LiYF4 lasers based on crystals with several doping levels in the range of 2.5 - 6 at.% with and without cascade laser are studied. For low doping of 2.5 at.% Tm3+, adding the laser emission at 1.9 µm allows to double the output power at 2.3 µm, whereas for high doping of 6 at.%, allowing the laser to operate at 1.9 µm totally suppresses the laser emission at 2.3 µm. An analytical model is developed and confronted with experimental results to predict this doping-dependent phenomenon and forecast the potential benefits. This study of cascade laser emission on the 3H4→ 3H5 and 3F4→ 3H6 transitions versus the Tm3+ doping level is finally extended to other well-known Tm3+-doped laser materials.
Thematic Areas: Química Optics Odontología Medicina iii Medicina ii Materiais Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Biotecnología Atomic and molecular physics, and optics Astronomia / física
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: f.diaz@urv.cat magdalena.aguilo@urv.cat rosam.sole@urv.cat xavier.mateos@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-4581-4967 0000-0001-6130-9579 0000-0002-5769-4141 0000-0003-1940-1990
Record's date: 2024-08-03
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-31-21-34201&id=540339
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Optics Express. 31 (21): 34201-34212
APA: Dupont, H; Guillemot, L; Loiko, P; Solé, RM; Mateos, X; Aguiló, M; Díaz, F; Braud, A; Camy, P; Georges, P; Druon, F (2023). Cascade laser optimization for 3H4 → 3H5 and 3F4 → 3H6 sequent transitions in Tm3+-doped materials. Optics Express, 31(21), 34201-34212. DOI: 10.1364/OE.501585
Article's DOI: 10.1364/OE.501585
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications