• DocumentCode
    2920878
  • Title

    Highly Transparent Yb-doped Ceramics and the Laser-diode-pumped Ceramic Lasers

  • Author

    Takaichi, K. ; Yagi, H. ; Shirakawa, A. ; Ueda, K. ; Yanagitani, T. ; Kaminskii, A.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Japan; takaichi@ils.uec.ac.jp
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    30-02 Aug. 2005
  • Firstpage
    271
  • Lastpage
    272
  • Abstract
    We have been fabricating highly transparent ceramic laser materials. Yb-doped Y3Al5O12and rare-earth sesquioxide ceramics were developed as laser media. A tunable laser pumped with a 976-nm laser diode was demonstrated with the Yb:Y2O3ceramics.
  • Keywords
    LD-pumped lasers; Yb-doped lasers; ceramic lasers; new laser materials; solid-state lasers; Absorption; Ceramics; Chemical lasers; Laser excitation; Laser sintering; Laser theory; Optical materials; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; LD-pumped lasers; Yb-doped lasers; ceramic lasers; new laser materials; solid-state lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9242-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569413
  • Filename
    1569413