Imperial College London

ProfessorMichaelDamzen

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Professor of Experimental Laser Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7783m.damzen Website

 
 
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Location

 

610Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Arbabzadah:2016:6/065002,
author = {Arbabzadah, EA and Damzen, MJ},
doi = {6/065002},
journal = {Laser Physics Letters},
title = {Fibre-coupled red diode-pumped Alexandrite TEM00 laser with single and double-pass end-pumping},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1612-2011/13/6/065002},
volume = {13},
year = {2016}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - We report the investigation of an Alexandrite laser end-pumped by a fibre-coupled red diode laser module. Power, efficiency, spatial, spectral, and wavelength tuning performance are studied as a function of pump and laser cavity parameters. It is the first demonstration, to our knowledge, of greater than 1 W power and also highest laser slope efficiency (44.2%) in a diode-pumped Alexandrite laser with diffraction-limited TEM00 mode operation. Spatial quality was excellent with beam propagation parameter M 2 ~ 1.05. Wavelength tuning from 737–796 nm was demonstrated using an intracavity birefringent tuning filter. Using a novel double pass end-pumping scheme to get efficient absorption of both polarisation states of the scrambled fibre-delivered diode pump, a total output coupled power of 1.66 W is produced in TEM00 mode with 40% slope efficiency.
AU - Arbabzadah,EA
AU - Damzen,MJ
DO - 6/065002
PY - 2016///
SN - 1612-202X
TI - Fibre-coupled red diode-pumped Alexandrite TEM00 laser with single and double-pass end-pumping
T2 - Laser Physics Letters
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1612-2011/13/6/065002
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/32408
VL - 13
ER -