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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9242-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569413
