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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1996),
  • paper CTuL34

Effective etalon reflectors with high damage threshold for erbium laser development

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Abstract

Up to now the resonator mirrors for erbium lasers have been based on conventional coating technology. The coating materials for. dielectrical mirrors still have relatively high absorption around 3 μm, and are also partly porous and not water free. All these factors result in low damage threshold of such dielectric mirrors, which are, therefore, not suited for Q-Switched operation with high-intra-cavity power density. The rapid development of erbium lasers for medical application demands a solution to this problem.

© 1996 Optical Society of America

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