{"id":206720,"date":"2025-02-19T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/researchers-develop-first-room-temperature-holmium-doped-yttrium-lithium-fluoride-thin-disk-laser"},"modified":"2025-02-19T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:24:22","slug":"researchers-develop-first-room-temperature-holmium-doped-yttrium-lithium-fluoride-thin-disk-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/researchers-develop-first-room-temperature-holmium-doped-yttrium-lithium-fluoride-thin-disk-laser","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop first room temperature holmium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride thin disk laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-first-room-temperature-holmium-doped-yttrium-lithium-fluoride-thin-disk-laser2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-33-4-7569\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Optics Express<\/i>, a research group led by Prof. Fu Yuxi from Xi\u2019an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed the first room temperature holmium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Ho: YLF) composite thin disk laser, which can achieve high efficiency and quality continuous-wave laser output.<\/p>\n<p>Lasers operating in the 2 \u00b5m spectral range are highly valued for their eye safety, high water absorption, and low atmospheric attenuation.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional 2 \u00b5m lasers typically require cryogenic cooling to control thermal effects, which increases system complexity and cost, and restricts their use in compact, space-constrained, and mobile platforms. Therefore, developing high-power, room-temperature 2 \u00b5m lasers has become a vital research direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study published in Optics Express, a research group led by Prof. Fu Yuxi from Xi\u2019an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed the first room temperature holmium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Ho: YLF) composite thin disk laser, which can achieve high efficiency and quality continuous-wave laser [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}