Thermal load and efficiency optimization for a flashlamp-pumped Er:YAG laser

Matjaz Lukac; Karolj Neimes; Simona Cencic

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1993),
paper CWJ24

Thermal load and efficiency optimization for a flashlamp-pumped Er:YAG laser

Matjaz Lukac, Karolj Neimes, and Simona Cencic

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1993

Baltimore, Maryland United States
2–7 May 1993
ISBN: 1-55752-189-1

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M. Lukac, K. Neimes, and S. Cencic, "Thermal load and efficiency optimization for a flashlamp-pumped Er:YAG laser," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, A. Glass, T. Hsu, T. Deutsch, and J. Goldman, eds., Vol. 10 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1993), paper CWJ24.

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Abstract

Repetitive operation of flashlamp pumped 3 pm Er:YAG lasers is limited by thermal effects which are due to high threshold energies E_th per pulse.¹ There are three main pumping processes, here labeled as R₁, R₂, and W, that populate the Er³⁺ laser states ⁴I_11/2 and ⁴I_13/2.

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