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Title: | Coherent polarization locking : an approach to mitigating optical damage in a pulsed Ho:YAG laser | Authors: | Tan, L. H. Chua, C. F. Phua, Poh Boon. |
Issue Date: | 2013 | Source: | Tan, L. H., Chua, C. F., & Phua, P. B. (2013). Coherent polarization locking: an approach to mitigating optical damage in a pulsed Ho:YAG laser. Optics Letters, 38(7), 1025-1027. | Series/Report no.: | Optics letters | Abstract: | Intracavity optical damage is mitigated in a pulsed Ho:YAG laser cavity using the coherent polarization locking (CPL) technique. By splitting the available pump power into two individual Ho:YAG laser rods, we passively coherently locked two orthogonal polarization lasers with 9.13 mJ output pulse energies and 14 ns pulsewidths, and operating at 800 Hz repetition rate. A conventional Ho:YAG laser cavity with the same pump and cavity configuration results in severe optical damage when operating at <2 kHz repetition rate, thus limiting the output pulse energies to <5 mJ. We also demonstrated, to the best of our knowledge, the first pulsed operation within the entire CPL Ho:YAG laser cavity by Q-switching in one of the polarization arms, producing nanosecond pulses with no sign of pulse instability. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95742 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11877 |
DOI: | 10.1364/OL.38.001025 | Schools: | School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences | Research Centres: | Temasek Laboratories | Rights: | © 2013 Optical Society of America. This paper was published in Optics Letters and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of Optical Society of America. The paper can be found at the following official DOI: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.001025]. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law. | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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