• DocumentCode
    2146243
  • Title

    Passively Q-switched Yb:YAG/Cr:YAG ceramics miniature lasers with peak power ≫ 150 kW and nearly diffraction-limited beam quality

  • Author

    Dong, Junchen ; Shirakawa, A. ; Ueda, K. ; Yagi, H. ; Yanagitani, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Electro-Commun., Tokyo
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    17-22 June 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    Here we report on the high peak power laser performance of Yb:YAG/Cr:YAG all-ceramic miniature laser by using low initial transmission of the Cr4+:YAG and high transmission of the output coupler.
  • Keywords
    Q-switching; ceramics; chromium; laser beams; microchip lasers; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; ytterbium; YAG:Cr; YAG:Yb; high peak power laser performance; low initial transmission; microchip laser; nearly diffraction-limited beam quality; passively Q-switched ceramics miniature lasers; saturable absorber; Ceramics; Chemical lasers; Diffraction; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Microchip lasers; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0931-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0931-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385810
  • Filename
    4385810