Koen, WBollig, CStrauss, Hencharl JSchellhorn, MJacobs, CobusEsser, MJD2010-07-122010-07-122010-04Koen, 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 101-1060021-8979http://www.springerlink.com/content/m823265551470079/fulltext.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/4057Copyright: 2010 American Institute of PhysicsThe 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 beamenHo:YLF oscillator-amplifier systemLaserFibre laserArticleKoen, 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/10204/4057Koen, 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/10204/4057Koen 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.TY - Article AU - Koen, W AU - Bollig, C AU - Strauss, Hencharl J AU - Schellhorn, M AU - Jacobs, Cobus AU - Esser, MJD AB - 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 DA - 2010-04 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Ho:YLF oscillator-amplifier system KW - Laser KW - Fibre laser LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2010 SM - 0021-8979 T1 - Compact fibre-laser-pumped Ho:YLF oscillator–amplifier system TI - Compact fibre-laser-pumped Ho:YLF oscillator–amplifier system UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4057 ER -