Abstract
In this paper, transient thermal lensing effects in a typical flashlamp-pumped CTH:YAG laser crystal under lasing and non-lasing conditions are studied and compared in a low repetition-rate regime. It is shown that in the lasing regime (for pumping energies higher than 90J) the time-resolved behavior and the strength of the three mode thermal lenses of the rod are different from the non-lasing condition. According to this research, it can be referred that higher-order processes such as excited state absorption of both pump and laser radiation and energy transfer up-conversion may have a more significant contribution to the laser dynamics in the lasing regime. The analysis of the results also shows that the energy transfer between different manifolds in Cr3+, Tm3+, and Ho3+ ions may depend on coolant temperature.
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