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A 2052.96â nm single-longitudinal-mode pulsed Ho:YVO4 MOPA system was demonstrated for the first time. The pulsed Ho:YVO4 MOPA system consisted of a unidirectional ring passively Q-switched oscillator and a single-pass amplifier. By inserting an isolator, a half-wave plate and a Cr2+:ZnS plate into the ring Ho:YVO4 oscillator cavity, the single-longitudinal-mode pulsed laser was achieved with an average output power of 1.02 W with pulse width of 910â ns and pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 67 kHz. Using the residual (non-absorbed) pump power of the oscillator as pump, the single-pass pulsed Ho:YVO4 amplifier obtained an average output power of 1.67 W. The total optical-to-optical efficiency of the pulsed Ho:YVO4 MOPA system was 14.3%. Single-longitudinal-mode pulsed MOPA system based on isolator and Cr2+:ZnS around 2 µm has not been reported yet to the best of our knowledge.
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We demonstrate a 102 W middle infrared ZnGeP2 (ZGP) optical parametric amplifier (OPA) pumped by a 2097-nm Q-switched Ho:YAG laser at a pulse repetition frequency of 10 kHz. The seed middle infrared laser was produced by a ZGP optical parametric oscillator. Its average power was 28.4 W pumped by a 50 W 2097-nm laser. By thermal lens compensation, the beam factor M2 reduced from 3.1 to 2.1. When the incident Ho pump power was 120 W, the middle infrared ZGP OPA yielded the maximum average output power of 102 W and slope efficiency of 61.7%. The overall optical conversion efficiency of 60% from Ho to middle infrared was obtained for the whole middle infrared laser system. In addition, at the maximum average output power, the beam quality factors of the middle infrared ZGP OPA were measured to be about 2.7 and 2.8 for horizontal and vertical directions, respectively.
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We reported a high-energy, high-pulse-repetition-frequency Ho:YAG master oscillator and power amplifier (MOPA), which was resonantly dual-end pumped by Tm:YLF lasers at room temperature. At a pulse repetition frequency of 1 kHz, the Ho:YAG MOPA laser system produced a maximum pulse energy of 110.4 mJ with a 28 ns pulse width, corresponding to a peak power of approximately 3.94 MW. The output wavelength of the Ho:YAG MOPA laser system was 2090.9 nm. In addition, a beam quality factor M2 of about 1.7 was achieved at maximum output level.
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In this paper, we demonstrate 1-kHz-repetition-rate laser ultrasound in carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs). A ZGP master oscillator and power amplifier (MOPA) system was used to generate high-repetition-rate laser radiation in the spectral range 3.2-3.4 µm. At the output wavelength of 3.4 µm, the maximum output energy of the ZGP MOPA system is 5.62 mJ with a pulse width of 24 ns, corresponding to a peak power of approximately 233.9 kW. The ultrasound was generated by the laser converted from 3.2 to 3.4 µm in the graphite/epoxy composite. The maximum ultrasonic signal amplitude in the CFRP sample was 36.2 mV in the condition of thermoelastic excitation at 3.4 µm. Ablation occurred in the CFRP sample when the energy fluence was over 90 mJ/cm2. Compared in different samples, laser-ultrasound generation was influenced by the wavelength of the laser.
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In this paper we present a high power long-wave infrared ZnGeP2 (ZGP) optical parametric amplifier (OPA) pumped by a 2097-nm Q-switched Ho:YAG laser with pulse repetition frequency of 20 kHz. When the incident Ho pump power was 116.0 W, the maximum average output power of 11.4 W at 8.3 µm was achieved in the ZGP OPA. The optical conversion efficiency from Ho to long-wave infrared was about 9.8%. The ZGP OPA produced 30.4 ns long-wave infrared laser pulse. The beam quality factor (M2) of ZGP OPA was measured to be about 2.9 at the maximum average output power.
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A high-efficiency and high-brightness Ho:YAG master-oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA) system dual-end pumped by Tm:YLF lasers was demonstrated. The maximum output power of 231 W at a wavelength of 2090.7 nm was achieved with pulse repetition frequency of 10 kHz and pulse width of 22.9 ns, corresponding to pulse energy of 23.1 mJ and peak power of â¼1 MW. The extraction efficiency of the amplifier system was more than 60%. The beam quality factor M2 was measured to be â¼1.05. Using the Ho:YAG MOPA system as the pump source, the ZnGeP2 optical parametric oscillator delivered an output power of 110 W, corresponding to slope efficiency of 62%.