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Kvantovaya Elektronika, 1999 Volume 27, Number 1, Pages 16–18 (Mi qe1513)

This article is cited in 19 papers

Lasers

Thermal conductivity of a Tm3+:GdVO4 crystal and the operational characteristics of a microchip laser based on it

A. I. Zagumennyia, Yu. D. Zavartseva, P. A. Studenikina, V. I. Vlasova, I. A. Shcherbakova, C. P. Wyssb, W. Luthyb, H. P. Weberb, P. A. Popovc

a Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
b Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland
c I. G. Petrovsky Bryansk State Pedagogical University

Abstract: The thermal conductivity of a Tm3+:GdVO4 crystal was measured in the temperature range 50 — 300 K. At a temperature of 300 K, the thermal conductivity along the c axis amounted to 9.7 W m-1 K-1, which is higher than the thermal conductivity of a Cr:Tm:Ho :YAG crystal. A maximum output power of 1.4 W (λ=1.915 μm) was attained in a Tm3+:GdVO4 microchip laser for a lasing threshold of 5.7 W and a differential efficiency of 9.2%. A GdVO4 array was found to have a number of advantages compared with other media for the fabrication of diode-pumped lasers.

PACS: 42.55.Rz, 42.55.Xi, 42.60.Jf, 66.70.+f

Received: 13.11.1998


 English version:
Quantum Electronics, 1999, 29:4, 298–300

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