title: Diode-end-pumped passively mode-locked ceramic Nd:YAG Laser with a semiconductor saturable mirror.
abstract: We report on a diode-pumped CW passively mode locked ceramic Nd:YAG laser with SESAM (semiconductor saturable absorber mirror), wavelength 1064nm. At a pump power of 7.6w, the pulse width was estimated to be ~8.3ps with repetition rate ~130MHz and the average output power was 1.59w. To our knowledge, this was the first demonstration that ceramic Nd:YAG was used for diode pumped CW passively mode locking.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Hong-Bo
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhi-Pei
authors.initials: ZP
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Dafu
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Zu-Yan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yong-Gang
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiao-Yu
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Ma