Low-threshold and continuously tunable Yb:Gd2SiO5 laser

Wenxue Li, Qiang Hao, Hui Zhai, Heping Zeng, Wei Lu, Guangjun Zhao, Chengfeng Yan, Liangbi Su, Jun Xu

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Abstract

Yb:Gd2SiO5 (Yb:GSO) exhibits a large fundamental manifold splitting. Its long-wavelength emission band around 1088 nm, which has the largest emission cross section, encounters the lowest reabsorption losses caused by thermal population of the terminal laser level. As a result, low-threshold and tunable continuous-wave Yb:GSO lasers were demonstrated. A slope efficiency up to 86% and a pumping threshold as low as 127 mW were achieved for a continuous-wave Yb:GSO laser at 1092.5 nm under the pump of a high-brightness laser diode. A continuous tunability between 1000 and 1120 nm was realized with an SF14 prism as the intracavity tuning element.

Original languageEnglish
Article number101125
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume89
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

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