{"title":"Power Scaling, Passive Q-Switching and Intracavity Frequency Doubling of Blue-Diode-Pumped Pr3+:YLF Laser","authors":"Shogo Fujita, Hiroki Tanaka, F. Kannari","doi":"10.1364/CLEOPR.2018.W1A.5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a continuous-wave Pr<sup>3+</sup>:YLF laser pumped by blue laser diodes, and obtain the output power of 6.7 and 3.7 W at 640 and 607 nm, respectively. The Pr<sup>3+</sup>:YLF laser is extended to passive Q-switching by utilizing a Co<sup>2+</sup>: MgAl<inf>2</inf>O<inf>4</inf> spinel saturable absorber and its intracavity second harmonic generation at DUV.","PeriodicalId":184212,"journal":{"name":"2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)","volume":"25 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEOPR.2018.W1A.5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We demonstrate a continuous-wave Pr3+:YLF laser pumped by blue laser diodes, and obtain the output power of 6.7 and 3.7 W at 640 and 607 nm, respectively. The Pr3+:YLF laser is extended to passive Q-switching by utilizing a Co2+: MgAl2O4 spinel saturable absorber and its intracavity second harmonic generation at DUV.