Diode laser-pumped solid-state lasers
Abstract
Recently, interest in diode laser-pumped solid-state lasers has increased due to their advantages over flashlamp-pumped solid-state lasers. A historical overview is presented of semiconductor diode-pumped solid-state lasers beginning with work in the early 1960s and continuing through recent work on wavelength extension of these devices by laser operation on new transitions. Modeling of these devices by rate equations to obtain expressions for threshold, slope efficiency, and figures of merit is also given.
- Publication:
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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- June 1988
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1988IJQE...24..895F
- Keywords:
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- Gallium Arsenide Lasers;
- Laser Pumping;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Semiconductor Diodes;
- Solid State Lasers;
- Yag Lasers;
- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Erbium;
- Laser Cavities;
- Laser Outputs;
- Stoichiometry;
- Lasers and Masers