Diode-pumped Yb:Y2O3 ceramic laser
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- 14 April 2003
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 82 (16) , 2556-2558
Abstract
We report on a diode-pumped polycrystalline ceramic laser. We demonstrate that, with a pump power of 11 W at 937 nm, 0.75-W cw laser output at 1078 nm can be obtained from the laser. The laser had a threshold of 4.7 W and a slope efficiency of 12.6% when an output coupler of was used.
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