High-energy, alignment-insensitive, injection-seeded <i>Q</i>-switched Ho:yttrium aluminum garnet single-frequency laser
Dong Yan, Yuan Yue, Yunpeng Wang, Jiawei Fan, Jiaze Wu, Xiaoming Duan, Sining Li, Tongyu Dai, Youlun Ju
Abstract
Abstract A high-energy, alignment-insensitive, injection-seeded Q -switched Ho:yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) single-frequency laser is developed. Both the slave Q -switched laser and the seed laser are Ho:YAG ring lasers based on a pair of corner cubic reflectors. The seed laser has an available power of 830 mW at 2096.667 nm. At 100 Hz, the Q -switched Ho:YAG laser provides a single-frequency pulsed output using injection-seeded technology. The 7.3 mJ single-frequency pulse energy from the slave laser has a pulse width of 161.2 ns and is scaled to 33.3 mJ after passing through the Ho:YAG single-pass amplifier. According to the measurement results of the heterodyne beating technique, the single-frequency pulse has a half-width of 4.12 MHz.