Abstract
A 2 μm Ho-doped ytrrium lithium fluoride (Ho:YLF) laser end-pumped by a 1.94 μm Tm:fiber laser was developed. A laser system of a ring resonator oscillator and amplifier was operated at repetition rates of 200–5000 Hz at room temperature. The -switched outputs were 7.4 W at 5000 Hz and 4.25 W at 200 Hz. Injection seeding was applied to the ring resonator, and single-mode laser emission was obtained. The Tm:fiber-laser-pumped Ho:YLF laser was first used for Doppler wind lidar measurements, and wind profiles were obtained up to ranges of about 15 km in a range resolution of 96 m and an integration time of 1 s.
© 2018 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
Fabien Gibert, Jessica Pellegrino, Dimitri Edouart, Claire Cénac, Laurent Lombard, Julien Le Gouët, Thierry Nuns, Alberto Cosentino, Paolo Spano, and Giorgia Di Nepi
Appl. Opt. 57(36) 10370-10379 (2018)
Kohei Mizutani, Toshikazu Itabe, Shoken Ishii, Makoto Aoki, Kazuhiro Asai, Atsushi Sato, Hirotake Fukuoka, Takayoshi Ishikawa, and Kazufusa Noda
Appl. Opt. 54(26) 7865-7869 (2015)
Encai Ji, Qiang Liu, Mingming Nie, Xuezhe Cao, Xing Fu, and Mali Gong
Opt. Lett. 41(6) 1237-1240 (2016)