title: Diode-pumped mode-locked Yb:YAG ceramic laser.
abstract: A diode-pumped passively mode-locked Yb:YAG ceramic laser was demonstrated. 417 and 286 fs pulses with average powers of 250 and 25 mW were obtained at 1030 nm using 1 and 0.1% output couplers, respectively. 233 fs pulses with an average power of 20 mW were also obtained at a center wavelength of 1048.3 nm using a 0.1% output coupler. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a diode-pumped mode-locked Yb:YAG ceramic laser.
authors.affiliation: Department of Media and Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering, Ibaraki University, 4-12-1 Nakanarusawa, Hitachi, Ibaraki 316-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
authors.forename: Shinki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Takayo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wada
mesh_terms: D002516:Ceramics; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity