1 School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China;
2 Key Laboratory of Transparent Opto-functional Inorganic Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China;
3 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
4 Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
In this paper the laser activities of a diode-pumped Yb:LuAG ceramic which was prepared by the solid-state reactive sintering method were reported. The maximum output power was 1.86 W in the continuous wave (CW) laser operation, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 53.6%. The CW laser could be tuned from 1030 to 1096 nm by inserting a prism in the cavity. With the assist of a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), passive mode-locking was realized, delivering sub-picosecond pulses with 933 fs duration and an average power of 532 mW at a repetition rate of 90.35 MHz.
Project supported by the National Major Scientific Instruments Development Project of China (Grant No. 2012YQ120047), the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFB0402105), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61205130 and 61575212), and the Key Research Project of the Frontier Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDB-SSW-JSC022).
Corresponding Authors:
Jiang-Feng Zhu, Jiang Li
E-mail: jfzhu@xidian.edu.cn;lijiang@mail.sic.ac.cn
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