Abstract
We report on the first, to the best of our knowledge, direct generation of pulsed vortex beams at 2 µm from a ${ Q}$-switched Tm:LuYAG laser. High-energy Laguerre–Gaussian (${{\rm LG}_{0,l}}$) pulsed laser beams with well-defined handedness are selectively excited through spatially matched pump gain distribution and asymmetric cavity loss without using any intracavity handedness-selective optical elements. Pulse energies of 1.48 mJ for the ${{\rm LG}_{0, + 1}}$ mode and 1.51 mJ for the ${{\rm LG}_{0, - 1}}$ mode, respectively, are achieved at a repetition rate of 500 Hz. The pulsed laser beams with helical wavefronts are potentially useful for studying orbital angular momentum transformation dynamics, generation of mid-IR vortex beams, and nanostructuring of organic materials.
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