Actively Q-switched radially polarized Ho:YAG laser with an intra-cavity laser-written S-waveplate
Actively Q-switched radially polarized Ho:YAG laser with an intra-cavity laser-written S-waveplate
Nanosecond Q-switched pulses and radial polarization are established standalone techniques for enhanced laser materials processing applications, but are generally challenging to achieve simultaneously at high average power levels. Here, we demonstrate a 20.6 W radially polarized Ho:YAG rod laser which has been actively Q-switched in order to generate 515 μJ , 210 ns pulses at 2097 nm. By utilizing an ultra-low-loss spatially-variant birefringent waveplate (S-waveplate) inside the laser cavity, the linearly polarized fundamental mode has been converted to a radially polarized donut-shaped beam with very high conversion efficiency.
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Barber, Matthew James
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Shardlow, Peter
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Lei, Yuhao
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Kazansky, Peter G.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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29 August 2022
Barber, Matthew James
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Shardlow, Peter
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Lei, Yuhao
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Kazansky, Peter G.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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Barber, Matthew James, Shardlow, Peter, Lei, Yuhao, Kazansky, Peter G. and Clarkson, W.A.
(2022)
Actively Q-switched radially polarized Ho:YAG laser with an intra-cavity laser-written S-waveplate.
Optics Letters, 47 (17), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.467960).
Abstract
Nanosecond Q-switched pulses and radial polarization are established standalone techniques for enhanced laser materials processing applications, but are generally challenging to achieve simultaneously at high average power levels. Here, we demonstrate a 20.6 W radially polarized Ho:YAG rod laser which has been actively Q-switched in order to generate 515 μJ , 210 ns pulses at 2097 nm. By utilizing an ultra-low-loss spatially-variant birefringent waveplate (S-waveplate) inside the laser cavity, the linearly polarized fundamental mode has been converted to a radially polarized donut-shaped beam with very high conversion efficiency.
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Published date: 29 August 2022
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