Abstract
We demonstrated a 1.91 μm pumped, injection-seeded -switched Ho:YAG laser operating at room temperature. By inserting two Fabry–Perot etalons into the laser cavity, single-frequency Tm, Ho:YAG seed lasing was achieved at a wavelength of 2090.9 nm, with a typical output power of 60 mW. Single-frequency, nearly transform-limited -switched operation of the Ho:YAG laser was achieved by injection seeding. The output energy of the single-frequency -switched pulse is 7.6 mJ, with a pulse width of 132 ns and a repetition rate of 100 Hz. We measured the pulse spectrum, half-width of which was 3.5 MHz, by a heterodyne technique.
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