A. N. Alpat'ev, V. A. Smirnov, I. A. Shcherbakov, “Relaxation oscillations of the radiation from a 2-μm holmium laser with a Cr,Tm,Ho : YSGG crystal”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 1998, Volume 25, Number 2,Pages <nobr>151

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Control of laser radiation parameters

Relaxation oscillations of the radiation from a 2-μm holmium laser with a Cr,Tm,Ho : YSGG crystal

A. N. Alpat'ev, V. A. Smirnov, I. A. Shcherbakov

Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: Analytic expressions for the parameters of relaxation oscillations in a cw 2-μm, Cr,Tm,Ho : YSGG crystal laser are derived and analysed. They are compared quantitatively with the corresponding parameters of a 2-μm Cr,Tm : YSGG crystal laser. Significant differences are found between the damping decrements. The experimental and theoretical results are compared and the different operational dynamics of the Ho³⁺ and Tm³⁺ ion lasers explained.

PACS: 42.55.Rz, 42.60.Rn

Received: 10.10.1997