This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61177045 and 61308047), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, and the Postgraduates Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (No. CXZZ12_0978).
We demonstrate a narrow linewidth 1881 nm Tm:YAG ceramic laser that combines the advantages of in-band pumping at 1617 nm and volume Bragg grating as a wavelength selection device. With an output coupler of 5% transm...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 10874237, 10804128,and 60808007);;the National “863” Program of China(No. 2011AA030205);;the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. K50511050001)
A diode-pumped picosecond mode-locked Yb:YAG ceramic laser is realized with a slope efficiency of 44%. Output power up to 1.04 W is obtained with pulse duration of 10.4 ps at central wavelength of 1 049.5 nm. The sta...