Diode pumped Er:YAG single crystal fiber laser passively Q-switched with Cr:ZnSe saturable absorber emitting at 1645 nm or 1617 nm (orale)

Adrien Aubourg (1, 2) , Nicolas Aubry (1) , Julien Didierjean (1) , François Balembois (2) , Patrick Georges (2)

1 Fibercryst
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Lasers

We successfully passively Q-switched a diode pumped Er:YAG cavity emitting at 1645 nm or 1617 nm depending on the inserted losses. Pulse energies went up to 0.5 mJ at 820 Hz.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Adrien Aubourg, Nicolas Aubry, Julien Didierjean, François Balembois, Patrick Georges. Diode pumped Er:YAG single crystal fiber laser passively Q-switched with Cr:ZnSe saturable absorber emitting at 1645 nm or 1617 nm (orale). Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-IQEC), May 2013, Munich, Germany. ⟨hal-00817702⟩