Title :
Passively mode-locked Yb/sup 3+/-doped ceramic lasers
Author :
Saikawa, J. ; Sato, Y. ; Taira, T. ; Ikesue, A.
Author_Institution :
Laser Res. Center for Molecular Sci., Inst. for Molecular Sci., Okazaki, Japan
Abstract :
Femtosecond Yb/sup 3+/-doped disordered Y/sub 3/Al/sub 5/O/sub 12//Y/sub 3/Sc/sub 2/Al/sub 3/O/sub 12/ (Yb:Y/sub 3/ScAl/sub 4/O/sub 12/) ceramic laser is reported. Up to 72% slope efficiency for input power was obtained under cw operation. We achieved pulses as short as 580 fs with 25 mW output power.
Keywords :
ceramics; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; solid lasers; ytterbium; 25 mW; Y/sub 3/Al/sub 5/O/sub 12/-Y/sub 3/Sc/sub 2/Al/sub 3/O/sub 12/; Y/sub 3/ScAl/sub 4/O/sub 12/:Yb/sup 3+/; cw operation; passively mode-locked Yb/sup 3+/-doped ceramic lasers; slope efficiency;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
