Supported by the National Basic Research Programme of China under Grant No 2006CB806005, the Shanghai Pujiang Program (06PJ14035), the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10774045, the Key Project of the Ministry of Education of China (44K20080), and the SRF for ROCS, SEM.
We report an efficient Q-switched laser action based on a semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) as passively Q-switched laser starter and a Yb:LYSO alloyed crystal as gain material pumped directly by 97...