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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385810