Compact fibre-laser-pumped Ho:YLF oscillator–amplifier system

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W. Koen
C. Bollig
H. Strauss
M. Schellhorn
C. Jacobs
M. J. D. Esser
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[1] Council for Scientific and Industrial Research,National Laser Centre
[2] University of KwaZulu-Natal,French–German Research Institute
[3] University of Stellenbosch,undefined
[4] ISL,undefined
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Applied Physics B | 2010年 / 99卷
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42.55.Xi; 42.60.Gd; 42.60.Da;
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We developed a compact Ho:YLF oscillator–amplifier system in a novel setup to utilise the unpolarised pump power from a fibre laser efficiently, and produced 21.3 mJ at 1 kHz, with an M2 better than 1.1. The amplified energies agreed well with the predicted values from a two dimensional rotational symmetric amplifier model that we developed. The model considers upconversion losses and ground-state depletion, as well as the spatial distribution of the pump beam.
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