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Megawatt-Level Repetitively Pulsed Erbium 3-µm Laser with Strong Thermal Lens Compensation

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We report on an increase in the average power of a repetitively pulsed (10 Hz) nanosecond 3-µm laser due to the compensation of a strong thermal lens in the Cr:Er:YSGG laser cavity maintaining the megawatt-level peak power. Thermally-induced beam distortions are measured in a set of 3-µm erbium crystals (Er:YAG, Er:YSGG, Cr:Er:YSGG), a scheme for compensating a thermal lens in a Cr:Er:YSGG Q-switched laser with a pulse energy of 23 mJ at a repetition rate of 10 Hz in with low-order transverse mode beam is proposed and experimentally implemented. The developed approach makes it possible to control the cavity mode in high-power nanosecond 3-µm lasers with flashlamp or diode pumping, which are used for a variety of scientific and technological applications, including pumping laser crystals in the middle infrared range, as well as laser-induced microstructuring and tissue engineering.

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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 17-72-20130, modeling part) and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 18-29-20074, experimental part). A.V. Pushkin acknowledges the support of the Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics BASIS.

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Published in Russian in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2020, Vol. 112, No. 8, pp. 508–515.

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Pushkin, A.V., Slovinskii, I.A. & Potemkin, F.V. Megawatt-Level Repetitively Pulsed Erbium 3-µm Laser with Strong Thermal Lens Compensation. Jetp Lett. 112, 478–484 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364020200023

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