The authors developed a compact Ho:YLF oscillator–amplifier system in a novel setup to utilise the unpolarised pump power from a fibre laser efficiently, and produced 21.3 mJ at 1 kHz, with an M 2 better than 1.1. The amplified energies agreed well with the predicted values from a two dimensional rotational symmetric amplifier model that we developed. The model considers upconversion losses and ground-state depletion, as well as the spatial distribution of the pump beam
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Koen, W, Bollig, C, Strauss, H et al. 2010. Compact fibre-laser-pumped Ho:YLF oscillator–amplifier system. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 99(1-2), pp 101-106
Koen, W., Bollig, C., Strauss, H. J., Schellhorn, M., Jacobs, C., & Esser, M. (2010). Compact fibre-laser-pumped Ho:YLF oscillator–amplifier system. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4057
Koen, W, C Bollig, Hencharl J Strauss, M Schellhorn, Cobus Jacobs, and MJD Esser "Compact fibre-laser-pumped Ho:YLF oscillator–amplifier system." (2010) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4057
Koen W, Bollig C, Strauss HJ, Schellhorn M, Jacobs C, Esser M. Compact fibre-laser-pumped Ho:YLF oscillator–amplifier system. 2010; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4057.