We report on a gain-switched Er:YAG ceramic laser resonantly pumped by an acoustooptically modulated Er, Yb co-doped fiber laser at 1532 nm. The laser produced stable pulse trains at 1645 nm with pulse repetition rate tunable between 13-100 kHz and corresponding pulse width of 480-450 ns under a pump power-level of 8.7 W. At the 100 kHz of repetition rate, over 2.2 W of average output power was generated for 6.5 W of incident pump power, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 40% with respect to incident pump power.

We report on a gain-switched Ho:CaYAlO 4 laser resonantly pumped by a home-constructed high power Tm:fiber laser at ~1922 nm. Stable nanosecond single-pulse operation could be maintained when the continuous-wave pump signal was modulated at repetition rates of 60-100 kHz with an acousto-optic modulator. A pulse duration of 311 ns has been obtained at a 60 kHz repetition rate under a pump power level of 11 W. The temporal stability and simplicity of operation make this laser suitable for a variety of applications, such as spectroscopy, gas sensing, and as the seed source of a master oscillation power amplifier system.