A Ti:sapphire laser end-pumped by a fibre-coupled copper vapour laser

Andrew J S McGonigle; D. W. Coutts

doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(02)01663-2

A Ti:sapphire laser end-pumped by a fibre-coupled copper vapour laser

Andrew J S McGonigle, D. W. Coutts^*

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We report a novel fibre-coupled end-pumping geometry, applied in the context of a copper vapour laser (CVL) pumped Ti:sapphire laser, with the intention of addressing complications associated with coupling the pump beam into the Ti:sapphire cavity mode in this laser scheme. Two Ti:sapphire cavity configurations were implemented. The first of these resulted in output powers of up to 2 W at a pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 6.2 kHz and slope efficiencies over 40%. High peak power output (up to 90 kW) in 3.3 ns pulses was obtained via a second, shorter cavity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	217-221
Number of pages	5
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	209
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(02)01663-2
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2002
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Fibre pumping
Metal vapour lasers
Solid state lasers
Titanium sapphire lasers

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A Ti:sapphire laser end-pumped by a fibre-coupled copper vapour laser

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