Ceramic planar waveguide laser of non-aqueous tape casting fabricated YAG/Yb:YAG/YAG

  • Chao Wang
  • , Wenxue Li*
  • , Chao Yang
  • , Dongbi Bai
  • , Jiang Li
  • , Lin Ge
  • , Yubai Pan
  • , Heping Zeng
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Ceramic YAG/Yb:YAG/YAG planar waveguide lasers were realized on continuous-wave and mode-locked operations. The straight waveguide, fabricated by non-aqueous tape casting and solid state reactive sintering, enabled highly efficient diode-pumped waveguide continuous-wave laser with the slope efficiency of 66% and average output power of more than 3 W. The influence of the waveguide structure on the wavelength tunability was also experimentally investiccgated with a dispersive prism. Passively mode-locked operation of the ceramic waveguide laser was achieved by using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), output 2.95 ps pulses with maximum power of 385 mW at the central wavelength of 1030 nm.

Original languageEnglish
Article number31289
JournalScientific Reports
Volume6
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes

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