• Opto-Electronic Advances
  • Vol. 3, Issue 4, 190031-1 (2020)
Haizhou Huang1, Jinhui Li1, Jing Deng1,2, Yan Ge1..., Huagang Liu3, Jianhong Huang1, Wen Weng1,2 and Wenxiong Lin1,*|Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, 117576, Singapore
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    DOI: 10.29026/oea.2020.190031 Cite this Article
    Haizhou Huang, Jinhui Li, Jing Deng, Yan Ge, Huagang Liu, Jianhong Huang, Wen Weng, Wenxiong Lin. Passively Q-switched Tm/Ho composite laser[J]. Opto-Electronic Advances, 2020, 3(4): 190031-1 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We explored Q-switching mechanism for the newly proposed Tm/Ho composite laser via developing a hybrid resonator for separating the intra-cavity Tm laser modulated by the saturable absorber (SA). With a Cr:ZnSe SA, successful passively Q-switching process with the maximum average output power of 474 mW and the shortest pulse width of 145 ns were obtained at the pulse repetition frequency of 7.14 kHz, where dual wavelength oscillation in both 2090 nm and 2097 nm was observed. This work provides an effective way for a direct laser diode (LD) pumped Q-switched Ho laser, which is compact and accessible. Furthermore, the current SA could be replaced by the 2D materials with broadband saturable absorption such as topological insulators or transition-metal dichalcogenides for seeking novel PQS lasers.
    $ \alpha = \frac{{\omega _{\rm{s}}^2{\sigma _{{\rm{gs}}}}}}{{\omega _{\rm{c}}^2\sigma }} > \frac{{{n_{\rm{i}}}/{n_{{\rm{th}}}}}}{{{n_{\rm{i}}}/{n_{{\rm{th}}}} - 1}}, $ (1)

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    $ \left\{ ni=ln(1T02)+ln(11TOC)+Lnth=βln(1T02)+ln(11TOC)+L \right.\;, $ (2)

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    $ gi=1l0RiD(Lj+lr2n)[1(Li+lr2n)1Ri],i,j=1,2&ij $ (3)

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    $ {\omega _{\rm{c}}} = {\omega _{\rm{s}}}\sqrt {{{\left[ {1 - \frac{1}{{{R_1}}}({l_1} + \frac{{{l_{\rm{r}}}}}{{2n}})} \right]}^2} + {{\left[ {\frac{1}{{{l_{\rm{e}}}}}({l_1} + \frac{{{l_{\rm{r}}}}}{{2n}})} \right]}^2}\frac{{{g_1}(1 - {g_1}{g_2})}}{{{g_2}}}} , $ (4)

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    $ {\omega _{\rm{s}}} = \sqrt {\frac{{{\lambda _l}{l_{\rm{e}}}}}{{\rm{ \mathsf{ π} }}}\sqrt {\frac{{{g_2}}}{{{g_1}(1 - {g_1}{g_2})}}} } , $ (5)

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    Haizhou Huang, Jinhui Li, Jing Deng, Yan Ge, Huagang Liu, Jianhong Huang, Wen Weng, Wenxiong Lin. Passively Q-switched Tm/Ho composite laser[J]. Opto-Electronic Advances, 2020, 3(4): 190031-1
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