High Energy Cryogenically Cooled Ho:YAG Oscillator

High energy laser sources operating around 2 µm are of interest in a variety of applications: LIDAR, material processing, medicine and pump sources for optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) for high-energy mid-IR nonlinear conversion. The OPO approach using ZGP is a scalable route for generating mid-IR radiation. In order to achieve high energy output, a pump source with wavelengths above 2.05 µm ...