Micromachines (Basel)
November 2023
Iron-doped binary chalcogenide crystals are very promising for tunable solid-state lasers operating over the 3~5 μm spectral range. Fe: ZnSe is one of the most important gain crystals with the obvious advantages of material characteristics and conversion efficiency. By adjusting the output mode of the pump source, an Fe: ZnSe laser can operate in two modes at liquid nitrogen temperatures: continuous wave (CW) and pulse output.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQuasi-continuous wave (CW) laser output with high peak power and high energy is preferred in some industrial applications. Due to the non-linear effects and transverse mode instability, such high-peak-power laser output is difficult to achieve via monolithic fiber lasers in CW mode. For diode-pumped monolithic fiber lasers, by applying overshoot pulse modulation to the pumping diodes, we obtain a pulse laser output with a peak power much higher than that in CW mode.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo meet the requirements of fiber laser applications under extreme temperatures or when there is a large temperature difference, it is necessary to develop fiber lasers able to operate in a wide temperature range. At present, there is a lack of reports on high-power fiber lasers that can operate in a wide temperature range with low power fluctuations. Thus, we designed a 1 kW fiber oscillator that can operate in a wide temperature range through temperature-related rate equations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRandom Raman fiber laser (RRFL) has been widely studied in high-power laser generation due to its special lasing characteristics. However, all previous high-power results are based on the half-open cavity. In this letter, we demonstrate an applicable high-power RRFL with the simplest structure, that is, a full-open cavity.
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