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Fabrication of Nano-engineered Transparent Conducting Oxides by Pulsed Laser Deposition
Published on: February 27, 2013
High-energy, nanosecond pulsed Cr:CdSe laser with a 2.25-3.08 μm tuning range for laser biomaterial processing
Masaki Yumoto1, Norihito Saito1, Taichen Lin2,3
1Photonics Control Technology Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Abstract:
We have developed a mid-infrared (mid-IR) tunable Cr:CdSe laser with nanosecond pulse operation. A broad tuning range from 2.25 to 3.08 µm and an output energy exceeding 4 mJ at 2.64 μm were demonstrated. The maximum energy conversion for absorbed energy reached 35% when the pump fluence was 2.1 J/cm2. We showed that Cr:CdSe is an attractive laser material for obtaining high-energy pulses in the mid-IR region and that the Cr:CdSe laser has high potential for laser biomaterial processing.
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