Monolithic diamond Raman laser

Sean Reilly; Vasili G. Savitski; Hangyu Liu; Erdan Gu; Martin D. Dawson; Alan J. Kemp

doi:10.1364/OL.40.000930

Monolithic diamond Raman laser

Sean Reilly
, Vasili G. Savitski
, Hangyu Liu
, Erdan Gu
, Martin D. Dawson
, Alan J. Kemp

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Abstract

A monolithic diamond Raman laser is reported. It utilizes a 13mm radius of curvature lens etched onto the diamond surface and dielectric mirror coatings to form a stable resonator. The performance is compared to that of a monolithic diamond Raman laser operating in a plane-plane cavity. On pumping with a compact Q-switched laser at 532nm (16μJ pulse energy; 1.5ns pulse duration; 10kHz repetition-rate; M2 <1.5), laser action was observed at the first, second and third Stokes wavelengths (573nm, 620nm and 676nm respectively) in both cases. For the microlens cavity, a conversion efficiency of 84% was achieved from the pump to the total output power, with a slope efficiency of 88%. This compares to a conversion efficiency of 59%, and a slope efficiency of 74% for the plane-plane case. Total Raman output powers of 134mW and 96mW were achieved for the micro-lens and plane-plane cavities respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	930-933
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	40
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.000930
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2015

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laser
diamond Raman laser
solid-state lasers

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Alan Kemp
- alan.kempstrath.acuk
- Institute Of Photonics - Professor
- SUPA
Person: Academic

RAEng/Fraunhofer Research Chair in Advanced Laser Engineering
Kemp, A. (Principal Investigator)
Fraunhofer UK Research Limited, Royal Academy of Engineering RAE
1/02/14 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
DIAL (Diamond Lasers: Revolutionising Laser Engineering) - ERC Starting Grant)
Kemp, A. (Principal Investigator), Birch, R. (Researcher), Casula, R. (Researcher), Fraczek, E. (Researcher), Paboeuf, D. (Researcher), Parrotta, D. C. (Researcher), Reilly, S. (Researcher), Roth, P. (Researcher) & Savitski, V. (Researcher)
European Commission - FP7 - European Research Council
1/10/11 → 30/09/16
Project: Research
EPSRC DOCTORAL TRAINING GRANT | Reilly, Sean
Reilly, S. (Research Co-investigator)
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/11 → 15/09/15
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

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