Abstract

A passively Q-switched mode-locked (QML) operation in Tm, Ho: CaYAlO4 bulk laser was demonstrated experimentally by employing double wall carbon nanotube (DWCNTs) as a saturable absorber. The laser is pumped by a self-made wavelength tunable Ti: sapphire laser, and the pump threshold of Tm, Ho: CaYAlO4 laser was measured as 677 mW by using transmittance of 1.5% output coupler. A stable Q-switched mode-locked operation state was achieved when the absorption pumping power reached 1958 mW. And when the pumping power reached 2.6 W, a maximum output power was 64 mw with central wavelength of 2085 nm, the corresponding repetition frequency of mode-locked pulse was 98.04 MHz, and the modulation depth in Q-switching envelopes is close to 100%.

Highlights

  • Thanks to the rapid development of laser technology, a variety of lasers, including medium infrared ultrafast lasers [1, 2], ultrafast fiber lasers [3, 4] are playing an important role in more and more fields [5, 6]

  • It can be seen that the absorption efficiency of laser crystal to the pump light at 798 nm is 89.7% due to a large amount of pump light that is absorbed by the crystal when there is no laser running in the cavity

  • When continuous wave (CW) operation in the cavity is realized, the absorption efficiency of the laser crystal increases to about 91.6% due to the large number of upper-level particles returning to the lower level under stimulated radiation

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Thanks to the rapid development of laser technology, a variety of lasers, including medium infrared ultrafast lasers [1, 2], ultrafast fiber lasers [3, 4] are playing an important role in more and more fields [5, 6]. The passive mode-locking technique with saturable absorber (SA) [11,12,13] is the most widely convenient and low-cost method to obtain ultrafast lasers at 2-μm wavelength. The reports on mode-locked DWCNT-SAs are mainly focused on the solid-state and fiber lasers at 1-μm band [32, 33], while the reports on modelocked DWCNT-SAs at 2-μm band are few, and the output power is lower than 200 mW [34,35,36]. In 2018, our group realized the Q-switched and modelocked simultaneous operation with low threshold based on the DWCNTs in the Tm,Ho:LLF laser, and the maximum output power was 234 mW [39]. A stable simultaneously Q-switched modelocking (QML) operation was experimentally demonstrated for the first time in Tm,Ho:CaYAlO4 crystal by using DWCNTs-SA. Is calculated using the laser cavity mode ABCD propagation matrix theory

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