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Ti:Al2O3 Laser Pumped by a Frequency Doubled Nd:YAG Laser

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A Ti:Al2O3 laser was developed that was capable of producing 5.1 mJ of output with a slope efficiency of 0.3. The primary limitation to this laser was caused by the relatively large loss in the Ti:Al2O3 crystal at the lasing wavelength, about 0.16 cm-1. This high loss both caused the high threshold and limited the slope efficiency. The laser was characterized by measuring the laser output and the pulse length as a function of the energy input. The former measurement was also done as a function of the output mirror reflectivity. From this data, the slope efficiency and the threshold of the laser was determined as a function of the mirror reflectivity.

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  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

    N. P. Barnes & D. K. Remelius

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  1. W.W. Hansen Laboratories of Physics, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA

    Robert L. Byer Ph.D.

  2. Department of Physics, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Eric K. Gustafson Ph.D.

  3. Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA

    Rick Trebino Ph.D.

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Barnes, N.P., Remelius, D.K. (1985). Ti:Al2O3 Laser Pumped by a Frequency Doubled Nd:YAG Laser. In: Byer, R.L., Gustafson, E.K., Trebino, R. (eds) Tunable Solid State Lasers for Remote Sensing. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39765-6_21

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