Watt-level ultrafast laser inscribed thulium waveguide lasers

E Kifle, P Loiko, C Romero, JRV de Aldana… - Progress in Quantum …, 2020 - Elsevier
We report on the first watt-level ultrafast laser inscribed Thulium waveguide (WG) lasers.
Depressed-index buried channel WGs with a circular cladding (type III) are produced in …

2 μm ultrabroad spectra and laser operation of Tm: GdScO3 crystal

S Li, Q Fang, Y Zhang, S Tao, J Zhang, C Quan… - Optics & Laser …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spectra and laser operation at 2 μm of Tm: GdScO 3 crystal are investigated for the first time.
The low symmetry in GdScO 3 crystal broadens emission spectrum (269 nm) of Tm 3+: 3 F …

Highly efficient 2.3 µm thulium lasers based on a high-phonon-energy crystal: evidence of vibronic-assisted emissions

P Loiko, E Kifle, L Guillemot, JL Doualan, F Starecki… - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We report on highly efficient and power-scalable laser operation in a thulium-doped high-
phonon-energy crystal [monoclinic double tungstate, KLu (WO_4) _2] on the^ 3H_4 …

Efficient 1.7 µm pumping of 2 µm thulium lasers

J Kratochvíl, J Šulc, H Jelínková - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Solid-state 2 µm lasers based on thulium-doped active media Tm: YAG, Tm: YAP, and Tm:
YLF were investigated under 1.7 µm resonant diode pumping. In contrast with standard 0.8 …

Tm: YAG single-crystal fiber laser

J Liu, J Dong, Y Wang, J Guo, Y Xue, J Xu, Y Zhao… - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, to the best of our knowledge, we present the first thulium (Tm) single-crystal
fiber (SCF) laser with free-space propagation of the laser beam only. The SCF is equipped …

Fabrication of femtosecond laser written depressed-cladding waveguides in Tm3+: BaY2F8 crystal and laser operation near 2 μm

Y Morova, M Tonelli, A Sennaroglu - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
To our knowledge, we report the first waveguide laser operation of Tm 3+: BaY 2 F 8 crystal
near the wavelength of 2 μm. Femtosecond laser inscription was employed to fabricate two …

Efficient continuous wave and acousto-optical Q-switched Tm: Lu2O3 laser pumped by the laser diode at 1.7 μm

JJ Sun, Y Chen, K Zhang, QK Pan, Y He, DY Yu… - Infrared Physics & …, 2021 - Elsevier
A resonantly-pumped continuous wave and acousto-optical (AO) Q-switched Tm: Lu 2 O 3
laser was demonstrated in this paper. In the continuous-wave regime, with absorbed pump …

In-band pumped Tm,Ho:LiYF4 waveguide laser

P Loiko, E Kifle, G Brasse, R Thouroude, F Starecki… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A 4.5 at.% Tm, 0.5 at.% Ho: LiYF_4 planar waveguide (thickness: 25 μm) grown by Liquid
Phase Epitaxy is in-band pumped by a Raman fiber laser at 1679 nm (the^ 3H_6→^ 3F_4 …

Widely tunable in-band-pumped Tm:CaF2 laser

R Thouroude, A Tyazhev, A Hideur, P Loiko, P Camy… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
This Letter presents the efficient laser operation of a Tm: CaF_2 crystal in-band pumped at
1610 nm by an Er-Yb-codoped fiber laser system. A laser slope efficiency of 55%(versus …

2D layered MSe2 (M = Hf, Ti and Zr) for compact lasers: nonlinear optical properties and GHz lasing

G Li, W Du, S Sun, Q Lu, Z Chen, H Liu, Y Ma, X Sun… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) ternary transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are of
great research interest because their superior layer-dependent optical modulation …