Highly efficient 2% Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet ceramic laser

A highly efficient diode-laser end-pumped polycrystalline 2% Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) ceramics laser that is comparable in efficiency with Nd:YAG single crystal laser has been developed. With 883 mW pumping, 465-mW-cw laser output at 1064 nm has been obtained corresponding to an optical-to-o...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Applied physics letters 2000-12, Vol.77 (23), p.3707-3709
Hauptverfasser:	Lu, Jianren, Prabhu, Mahendra, Xu, Jianqiu, Ueda, Ken-ichi, Yagi, Hideki, Yanagitani, Takakimi, Kaminskii, Alexander A.
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	A highly efficient diode-laser end-pumped polycrystalline 2% Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) ceramics laser that is comparable in efficiency with Nd:YAG single crystal laser has been developed. With 883 mW pumping, 465-mW-cw laser output at 1064 nm has been obtained corresponding to an optical-to-optical efficiency of 52.7%. The laser threshold is only 30 mW with R=97% output coupler.
ISSN:	0003-6951 1077-3118
DOI:	10.1063/1.1331091