Rare-earth-doped silica microchip laser fabricated by sintering nanoporous glass.
We report a new method for fabricating rare-earth-doped silica glasses for laser materials obtained by sintering nanoporous silica glasses impregnated with rare-earth-doped ions. The fabricated materials have no residual pores and show good optical and mechanical properties. Good performance from a Nd3+ -doped silica microchip laser operating at 1.064 microm is successfully demonstrated, suggesting that the fabricated silica glasses have potential for use as active materials for high-power solid-state lasers.
Xia
Jinan
J
Photon Craft Project, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Japan Science and Technology Agency, Shanghai 201800, China. xia_jinan@yahoo.com
Chen
Danping
D
Qiu
Jianrong
J
Zhu
Congshan
C