Continuous-wave and mode-locked lasers on the base of partially disordered crystalline Yb3+:{YGd2}[Sc2](Al2Ga)O12 ceramics

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Continuous-wave and mode-locked lasers on the base of partially disordered crystalline Yb³⁺:{YGd₂}[Sc₂](Al₂Ga)O₁₂ ceramics

M. Tokurakawa, H. Kurokawa, Ae. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 5, pp. 4390-4395 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.004390

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We present cw and mode-locked laser operations on the base of partially disordered crystalline Yb³⁺:{YGd₂}[Sc₂](Al₂Ga)O₁₂ ceramics. In continuous-wave laser operations, the average power of 2.9 W at the wavelength of 1051 nm and 2.8 W at the wavelength of 1031 nm with above 40% optical-to-optical efficiencies were achieved. In mode-locked laser operation, pulses as short as 69 fs with the average power of 820 mW was also obtained.

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(140.3480) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, diode-pumped
(140.3580) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, solid-state
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers

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Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: January 6, 2010
Revised Manuscript: February 5, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: February 6, 2010
Published: February 17, 2010

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M. Tokurakawa, H. Kurokawa, Ae. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "Continuous-wave and mode-locked lasers on the base of partially disordered crystalline Yb³⁺:{YGd₂}[Sc₂](Al₂Ga)O₁₂ ceramics," Opt. Express 18, 4390-4395 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-5-4390

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A. A. Kaminskii, “Laser crystals and ceramics: recent advances,” Laser Photon. Rev. 1(2), 93–177 (2007). [CrossRef]
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P. Russbueldt, T. Mans, G. Rotarius, J. Weitenberg, H. D. Hoffmann, and R. Poprawe, “400W Yb:YAG Innoslab fs-Amplifier,” Opt. Express 17(15), 12230–12245 (2009), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-15-12230 . [CrossRef] [PubMed]
J. Saikawa, Y. Sato, T. Taira, and A. Ikesue, “Passive mode locking of a mixed garnet Yb:Y3ScAl4O12 ceramic laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85(24), 5845 (2004). [CrossRef]
H. Liu, J. Nees, and G. Mourou, “Diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KY(WO4)2 laser,” Opt. Lett. 26(21), 1723–1725 (2001). [CrossRef]
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F. Thibault, D. Pelenc, F. Druon, Y. Zaouter, M. Jacquemet, and P. Georges, “Efficient diode-pumped Yb3+:Y2SiO5 and Yb3+:Lu2SiO5 high-power femtosecond laser operation,” Opt. Lett. 31(10), 1555–1557 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
J. Boudeile, F. Druon, M. Hanna, P. Georges, Y. Zaouter, E. Cormier, J. Petit, P. Goldner, and B. Viana, “Continuous-wave and femtosecond laser operation of Yb:CaGdAlO4 under high-power diode pumping,” Opt. Lett. 32(14), 1962–1964 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
P. Klopp, V. Petrov, U. Griebner, K. Petermann, V. Peters, and G. Erbert, “Highly efficient mode-locked Yb:Sc2O3 laser,” Opt. Lett. 29(4), 391–393 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
C. Cascales, M. D. Serrano, F. Esteban-Betegón, C. Zaldo, R. Peters, K. Petermann, G. Huber, L. Ackermann, D. Rytz, C. Dupré, M. Rico, J. Liu, U. Griebner, and V. Petrov, “Structural, spectroscopic, and tunable laser properties of Yb3+-doped Yb:NaGd(WO4)2,” Phys. Rev. B 74(17), 174114 (2006). [CrossRef]
A. A. Kaminskii, M. Akchurin, R. Gainutdinov, K. Takaichi, A. Shirakawa, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and K. Ueda, “Microharness and fracture toughness of Y2O3- and Y3Al5O12-based nanocrystalline laser ceramics,” Crystallogr. Rep. 50(5), 869–873 (2005). [CrossRef]
A. A. Kaminskii, M. Sh. Akchurin, P. Becker, K. Ueda, L. Bohatý, A. Shirakawa, M. Takurakawa, K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, J. Dong, and T. Yanagitani, “Mechanical and optical properties of Lu2O3 host-ceramics for Ln3+ lasants,” Laser Phys. Lett. 5(4), 300–303 (2008). [CrossRef]
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M. Tokurakawa, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, M. Noriyuki, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, “Diode-pumped ultrashort-pulse generation based on Yb3+:Sc2O3 and Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic multi-gain-media oscillator,” Opt. Express 17(5), 3353–3361 (2009), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-5-3353 . [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. Tokurakawa, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, “Diode-pumped sub-100 fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb3+:Sc2O3 ceramic laser,” Opt. Lett. 32(23), 3382–3384 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. Tokurakawa, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, S. Hosokawa, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, “Diode-pumped 65 fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb3+:Lu2O3 and nondoped Y2O3 combined ceramic laser,” Opt. Lett. 33(12), 1380–1382 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. A. Kaminskii, S. N. Bagaev, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, H. J. Eichler, A. Shirakawa, M. Tokurakawa, H. Rhee, K. Takaichi, and T. Yanagitani, “Nonlinear-laser χ(3)-effects in novel garnet-type fine-grained ceramic-host {YGd2}[Sc2](Al2Ga)O12 for Ln3+ lasants,” Laser Phys. Lett. 6(9), 671–677 (2009). [CrossRef]
E. Sorokin, M. H. Ober, I. Sorokina, E. Wintner, A. J. Schmidt, A. I. Zagumennyi, G. B. Loutts, E. W. Zharikov, and I. A. Shcherbakov, “Femtosecond solid-state lasers using Nd3+-doped mixed scandium garnets,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10(8), 1436–1442 (1993). [CrossRef]
K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, J. Lu, J. F. Bisson, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, “Highly efficient continuous-wave operation at 1030 and 1075 nm wavelengths of LD-pumped Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic lasers,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 84(3), 317–319 (2004). [CrossRef]
M. J. Lederer, B. Luther-Davies, H. H. Tan, C. Jagadish, N. N. Akhmediev, and J. M. Soto-Crespo, “Multipulse operation of a Ti:sapphire laser mode locked by an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16(6), 895–904 (1999). [CrossRef]

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[1] W. F. Krupke, “Ytterbium solid-state lasers-the first decade,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 6(6), 1287–1296 (2000). [CrossRef]

[2] A. A. Kaminskii, “Laser crystals and ceramics: recent advances,” Laser Photon. Rev. 1(2), 93–177 (2007). [CrossRef]

[3] A. Giesen and J. Speiser, “Fifteen Years of Work on Thin-Disk Lasers: Results and Scaling Laws,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 13, 598–609 (2007).

[4] F. Brunner, E. Innerhofer, S. V. Marchese, T. Südmeyer, R. Paschotta, T. Usami, H. Ito, S. Kurimura, K. Kitamura, G. Arisholm, and U. Keller, “Powerful red-green-blue laser source pumped with a mode-locked thin disk laser,” Opt. Lett. 29(16), 1921–1923 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[5] P. Russbueldt, T. Mans, G. Rotarius, J. Weitenberg, H. D. Hoffmann, and R. Poprawe, “400W Yb:YAG Innoslab fs-Amplifier,” Opt. Express 17(15), 12230–12245 (2009), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-15-12230 . [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[6] J. Saikawa, Y. Sato, T. Taira, and A. Ikesue, “Passive mode locking of a mixed garnet Yb:Y3ScAl4O12 ceramic laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85(24), 5845 (2004). [CrossRef]

[7] H. Liu, J. Nees, and G. Mourou, “Diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KY(WO4)2 laser,” Opt. Lett. 26(21), 1723–1725 (2001). [CrossRef]

[8] F. Druon, D. N. Papadopoulos, J. Boudeile, M. Hanna, P. Georges, A. Benayad, P. Camy, J. L. Doualan, V. Ménard, and R. Moncorgé, “Mode-locked operation of a diode-pumped femtosecond Yb:SrF2 laser,” Opt. Lett. 34(15), 2354–2356 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[9] A. A. Lagatsky, V. E. Kisel, F. Baina, C. T. A. Browna, N. V. Kuleshovb, and W. Sibbetta, “Advances in femtosecond lasers having enhanced efficiencies,” Proc. SPIE 6731, 673103 (2007).

[10] S. Rivier, A. Schmidt, C. Kränkel, R. Peters, K. Petermann, G. Huber, M. Zorn, M. Weyers, A. Klehr, G. Erbert, V. Petrov, and U. Griebner, “Ultrashort pulse Yb:LaSc3(BO3)4 mode-locked oscillator,” Opt. Express 15(23), 15539–15544 (2007), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-23-15539 . [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[11] F. Thibault, D. Pelenc, F. Druon, Y. Zaouter, M. Jacquemet, and P. Georges, “Efficient diode-pumped Yb3+:Y2SiO5 and Yb3+:Lu2SiO5 high-power femtosecond laser operation,” Opt. Lett. 31(10), 1555–1557 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[12] J. Boudeile, F. Druon, M. Hanna, P. Georges, Y. Zaouter, E. Cormier, J. Petit, P. Goldner, and B. Viana, “Continuous-wave and femtosecond laser operation of Yb:CaGdAlO4 under high-power diode pumping,” Opt. Lett. 32(14), 1962–1964 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[13] P. Klopp, V. Petrov, U. Griebner, K. Petermann, V. Peters, and G. Erbert, “Highly efficient mode-locked Yb:Sc2O3 laser,” Opt. Lett. 29(4), 391–393 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[14] C. Cascales, M. D. Serrano, F. Esteban-Betegón, C. Zaldo, R. Peters, K. Petermann, G. Huber, L. Ackermann, D. Rytz, C. Dupré, M. Rico, J. Liu, U. Griebner, and V. Petrov, “Structural, spectroscopic, and tunable laser properties of Yb3+-doped Yb:NaGd(WO4)2,” Phys. Rev. B 74(17), 174114 (2006). [CrossRef]

[15] A. A. Kaminskii, M. Akchurin, R. Gainutdinov, K. Takaichi, A. Shirakawa, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and K. Ueda, “Microharness and fracture toughness of Y2O3- and Y3Al5O12-based nanocrystalline laser ceramics,” Crystallogr. Rep. 50(5), 869–873 (2005). [CrossRef]

[16] A. A. Kaminskii, M. Sh. Akchurin, P. Becker, K. Ueda, L. Bohatý, A. Shirakawa, M. Takurakawa, K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, J. Dong, and T. Yanagitani, “Mechanical and optical properties of Lu2O3 host-ceramics for Ln3+ lasants,” Laser Phys. Lett. 5(4), 300–303 (2008). [CrossRef]

[17] O. K. Alimov, T. T. Basiev, M. E. Doroshenko, P. P. Fedorov, V. A. Konyushkin, S. V. Kouznetsov, A. N. Nakladov, V. V. Osiko, H. Jelinkova, and J. Šulc, “Spectroscopic and Oscillation Properties of Yb3+Ions in BaF2-SrF2-CaF2Crystals and Ceramics,” in Advanced Solid-State Photonics, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2009), paper WB25.

[18] M. Tokurakawa, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, M. Noriyuki, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, “Diode-pumped ultrashort-pulse generation based on Yb3+:Sc2O3 and Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic multi-gain-media oscillator,” Opt. Express 17(5), 3353–3361 (2009), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-5-3353 . [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[19] M. Tokurakawa, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, “Diode-pumped sub-100 fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb3+:Sc2O3 ceramic laser,” Opt. Lett. 32(23), 3382–3384 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[20] M. Tokurakawa, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, S. Hosokawa, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, “Diode-pumped 65 fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb3+:Lu2O3 and nondoped Y2O3 combined ceramic laser,” Opt. Lett. 33(12), 1380–1382 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[21] A. A. Kaminskii, S. N. Bagaev, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, H. J. Eichler, A. Shirakawa, M. Tokurakawa, H. Rhee, K. Takaichi, and T. Yanagitani, “Nonlinear-laser χ(3)-effects in novel garnet-type fine-grained ceramic-host {YGd2}[Sc2](Al2Ga)O12 for Ln3+ lasants,” Laser Phys. Lett. 6(9), 671–677 (2009). [CrossRef]

[22] E. Sorokin, M. H. Ober, I. Sorokina, E. Wintner, A. J. Schmidt, A. I. Zagumennyi, G. B. Loutts, E. W. Zharikov, and I. A. Shcherbakov, “Femtosecond solid-state lasers using Nd3+-doped mixed scandium garnets,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10(8), 1436–1442 (1993). [CrossRef]

[23] K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, J. Lu, J. F. Bisson, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, “Highly efficient continuous-wave operation at 1030 and 1075 nm wavelengths of LD-pumped Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic lasers,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 84(3), 317–319 (2004). [CrossRef]

[24] M. J. Lederer, B. Luther-Davies, H. H. Tan, C. Jagadish, N. N. Akhmediev, and J. M. Soto-Crespo, “Multipulse operation of a Ti:sapphire laser mode locked by an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16(6), 895–904 (1999). [CrossRef]

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