Diode-pumped passively mode-locked sub-picosecond Yb:LuAG ceramic laser

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/5/054213

Abstract

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.

Keywords: diode-pumped lasers solid state lasers ytterbium

Received: 15 December 2016
Revised: 17 January 2017
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PACS:	42.55.Xi	(Diode-pumped lasers)
	42.55.Rz	(Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers)
	76.30.Kg	(Rare-earth ions and impurities)

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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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Jiang-Feng Zhu(朱江峰), Kai Liu(刘凯), Jiang Li(李江), Jun-Li Wang(王军利), Yang Yu(于洋), Hui-Bo Wang(汪会波), Zi-Ye Gao(高子叶), Teng-Fei Xie(谢腾飞), Chao-Yu Li(李超宇), Yu-Bai Pan(潘裕柏), Zhi-Yi Wei(魏志义) Diode-pumped passively mode-locked sub-picosecond Yb:LuAG ceramic laser 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 054213

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