High-performance microchip lasers using polycrystalline Nd : YAG ceramics

Authors
Ikesue, A Taira, T Sato, Y Yoshida, K
Citation
A. Ikesue et al., High-performance microchip lasers using polycrystalline Nd : YAG ceramics, J CERAM S J, 108(4), 2000, pp. 428-430
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Material Science & Engineering
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE CERAMIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
ISSN journal
09145400 → ACNP
Volume
108
Issue
4
Year of publication
2000
Pages
428 - 430
Database
ISI
SICI code
0914-5400(200004)108:4<428:HMLUPN>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Nd-heavily-doped-YAG ceramic with high transparency was fabricated by a sim ple solid-state reaction method using high purity powders of Al2O3, Y2O3, a nd Nd2O3. The optical absorption coefficient of 4.8 at% Nd:YAG ceramic (at wavelength of 808 nm) was 16.5 cm(-1), which was remarkably higher than tha t of 1.0 at% Nd:YAG single crystal by the Czochralski method, Laser output power of the polycrystalline 4.8 at% Nd:YAG ceramics was about 4 times high er as compared with that of high-quality commercial 1.0 at% Nd:YAG single c rystal.