Abstract
Up to now the resonator mirrors for erbium lasers have been based on conventional coating technology. The coating materials for. dielectrical mirrors still have relatively high absorption around 3 μm, and are also partly porous and not water free. All these factors result in low damage threshold of such dielectric mirrors, which are, therefore, not suited for Q-Switched operation with high-intra-cavity power density. The rapid development of erbium lasers for medical application demands a solution to this problem.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
H.J. Eichler, B. Liu, O. Sperlich, and M. Kayser
CThM2 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 1996
Patrick Rambo, Jens Schwarz, Mark Kimmel, Briggs Atherton, Austin Bergstrom, and Brian Flusche
CMO5 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2008
R. J. Forster, A. Gloag, N. Langford, K. McCallion, W. Johnstone, L. Zhang, J. A. R. Williams, and I. Bennion
CThK4 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1996