Researching

Journals
  • Advanced Photonics
  • Photonics Insights
  • Advanced Photonics Nexus
  • Photonics Research
  • Advanced Imaging
  • View All Journals
  • Chinese Optics Letters
  • High Power Laser Science and Engineering
    • Articles
  • Optics
  • Physics
  • Geography
  • View All Subjects
    • Conferences
  • CIOP
  • HPLSE
  • AP
  • View All Events
    • News
    About CLP
    Search by keywords or author
    Journals >Chinese Optics Letters >Volume 16 >Issue 5 >Page 051401 > Article
    • Chinese Optics Letters
    • Vol. 16, Issue 5, 051401 (2018)
    Highly efficient CW laser operation in 4 at. % Tm3+ and 4 at. % Y3+ codoped CaF2 crystals
    Xinsheng Guo1,2, Qinghui Wu2, Linyang Guo3, Fengkai Ma2..., Fei Tang2, Cheng Zhang4, Jie Liu4, Bingchu Mei1,* and Liangbi Su2,5,**|Show fewer author(s)
    Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
  • 2Synthetic Single Crystal Research Center, Key Laboratory of Transparent and Opto-Functional Inorganic Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory on High Power Semiconductor Lasers, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China
  • 4Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
    • show less
    DOI: 10.3788/COL201816.051401 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xinsheng Guo, Qinghui Wu, Linyang Guo, Fengkai Ma, Fei Tang, Cheng Zhang, Jie Liu, Bingchu Mei, Liangbi Su, "Highly efficient CW laser operation in 4 at. % Tm3+ and 4 at. % Y3+ codoped CaF2 crystals," Chin. Opt. Lett. 16, 051401 (2018) Copy Citation Text show less
    XRD patterns of the Tm:CaF2 and Tm,Y:CaF2 crystals.
    Fig. 1. XRD patterns of the Tm:CaF2 and Tm,Y:CaF2 crystals.
    Download full size | View in the Article
    Absorption spectra of Tm:CaF2 and Tm,Y:CaF2 crytals.
    Fig. 2. Absorption spectra of Tm:CaF2 and Tm,Y:CaF2 crytals.
    Download full size | View in the Article
    Emission spectra of the Tm:CaF2 and Tm,Y:CaF2 crystals.
    Fig. 3. Emission spectra of the Tm:CaF2 and Tm,Y:CaF2 crystals.
    Download full size | View in the Article
    Fluorescence decay curves at (a) 4 at. % Tm:CaF2 and (b) 4 at. % Tm,4 at. % Y:CaF2.
    Fig. 4. Fluorescence decay curves at (a) 4 at. % Tm:CaF2 and (b) 4 at. % Tm,4 at. % Y:CaF2.
    Download full size | View in the Article
    Gain cross-section at (a) 4 at. % Tm:CaF2 and (b) 4 at. % Tm,4 at. % Y:CaF2.
    Fig. 5. Gain cross-section at (a) 4 at. % Tm:CaF2 and (b) 4 at. % Tm,4 at. % Y:CaF2.
    Download full size | View in the Article
    Schematic of the Tm,Y:CaF2 crystal laser.
    Fig. 6. Schematic of the Tm,Y:CaF2 crystal laser.
    Download full size | View in the Article
    Output powers versus absorbed pump power with output coupler transmissions of 2%, 5%, and 10%, respectively.
    Fig. 7. Output powers versus absorbed pump power with output coupler transmissions of 2%, 5%, and 10%, respectively.
    Download full size | View in the Article
    HostsEmission Cross-section (cm−2)Emission Lifetime (ms)Pout (W)η (%)References
    Tm:YAG2.9×10−200.250.59318.9[27]
    Tm:SSO6×10−211.10.93425.9[28,29]
    Tm:CaYAlO42.5×10−212.68–2.90.2428[30,31]
    Tm:YAP2.09×10-1948.310.546[32,33]
    Tm:CaF23.2×10−212.99––This work
    Tm,Y:CaF24.5×10−213.941.01354.8This work
    Table 1. Emission Cross-section, Emission Lifetime, and Laser Parameters of Tm-doped Hosts
    View in the Article
    Full Text
    Get PDF
    Figures&Tables (8)
    Equations (2)
    References (33)
    Cited By (12)
    Get Citation
    Copy Citation Text
    Xinsheng Guo, Qinghui Wu, Linyang Guo, Fengkai Ma, Fei Tang, Cheng Zhang, Jie Liu, Bingchu Mei, Liangbi Su, "Highly efficient CW laser operation in 4 at. % Tm3+ and 4 at. % Y3+ codoped CaF2 crystals," Chin. Opt. Lett. 16, 051401 (2018)
    Download Citation
    EndNote(RIS)
    BibTex
    Plain Text
    Set citation alerts for the article
    Tools
    Share
    Set citation alerts for the article
    Save the article for my favorites
    Paper Information
    Recommended Topics
    laser devices and laser physics
    Lasers and Laser Optics
    Laser physics
    laser manufacturing
    Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology