K. S. Kravtsov, I. A. Bufetov, O. I. Medvedkov, E. M. Dianov, M. V. Yashkov, A. N. Gur'yanov, “7-W single-mode thulium-doped fibre laser pumped at 1230 nm”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2005, Volume 35, Number 7,Pages <nobr>586

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Lasers

7-W single-mode thulium-doped fibre laser pumped at 1230 nm

K. S. Kravtsov^a, I. A. Bufetov^a, O. I. Medvedkov^a, E. M. Dianov^a, M. V. Yashkov^b, A. N. Gur'yanov^b

^a Fiber Optics Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances RAS, Nizhnii Novgorod

Abstract: An efficient thulium-doped fibre laser emitting at ~2 μm upon pumping into the long-wavelength ³H₆ → ³H₅ absorption band of Tm³⁺ ions is developed. The maximum output power of the single-mode thulium laser pumped at 1230 nm was 7 W at 1956 nm for a pump conversion efficiency of 35%.

PACS: 42.55.Wd, 42.60.Da, 42.60.Lh

Received: 18.04.2004