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OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 139, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2021.106961
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Pr,Mg:SrAl12O19 crystal; Visible lasers; Continuous-wave mode; Passive Q-switching
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In this study, compact blue-diode-pumped Pr,Mg:SrAl12O19 (SRA) lasers were demonstrated in continuous-wave and passively Q-switched regimes. The lasers showed promising performance in terms of output powers and efficiencies, highlighting the potential of Pr,Mg:SRA as a compact and efficient laser source in the visible spectral range.
We report on compact blue-diode-pumped Pr,Mg:SrAl12O19 (SRA) lasers in continuous-wave and passively Qswitched regimes. For continuous-wave mode, three lasers have been achieved with maximum output powers of 675 mW, 566 mW and 312 mW at wavelengths of 643 nm, 724 nm and 622 nm, respectively. The maximum slope efficiencies with respect to absorbed power for the three lasers are 18.7%, 16.6% and 11.1%. Using a uniaxial Co2+-doped strontium, lanthanum and magnesium aluminate (Co:ASL) crystal as saturable absorber with remarkable absorptions at 643 nm and 622 nm, we have achieved passively Q-switched Pr,Mg:SRA lasers at the two emissions with maximum output powers of 175 mW and 118 mW, respectively, for the first time to our knowledge. The shortest pulse widths for the two lasers are 211.7 ns and 105.6 ns. Correspondingly, we estimated that pulse energies and peak power are 2.13 mu J and 10.1 W for the 643 nm laser as well as 0.98 mu J and 9.27 W for the 622 nm laser. This work reveals that Pr,Mg:SRA as one of the few reported Pr3+-doped oxides could be potential in generating compact and efficient lasers in visible spectral range.
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