Passive mode locking of 2.09 microm Cr,Tm,Ho:Y3Sc2Al3O12 laser using PbS quantum-dot-doped glass.
Passive Q-switched mode locking of a 2.09 microm flashlamp-pumped Cr(3+),Tm(3+),Ho(3+):Y(3)Sc(2)Al(3)O(12) laser by use of a phosphate glass doped with PbS quantum dots of 5 nm in radius was demonstrated. Mode-locked pulses of 290 ps in duration and up to 0.5 mJ in energy were registered.
Denisov
Igor A
IA
Institute for Optical Materials and Technologies, Belarussian National Technical University, Building 17, #65 Nezavisimosti Avenue, Minsk, 220013, Belarus.
Skoptsov
Nikolai A
NA
Gaponenko
Maxim S
MS
Malyarevich
Alexander M
AM
Yumashev
Konstantin V
KV
Lipovskii
Andrei A
AA
D000042:Absorption; D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry*; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D007854:Lead / Q000737:chemistry*; D010710:Phosphates / Q000737:chemistry; D045663:Quantum Dots; D013440:Sulfides / Q000737:chemistry*
D010710:Phosphates; D013440:Sulfides; C018391:lead sulfide; D007854:Lead