Waveguide-saturable absorber fabricated by femtosecond pulses in YAG:Cr4+ crystal for Q-switched operation of Yb-fiber laser


Autoria(s): Ohkrimchuk, Andrey G,; Mezentsev, Vladimir; Dvoyrin, Vladislav V.; Kurkov, Andrey S.; Sholokhov, Evgeny M.; Turitsyn, Sergei K.; Shestakov, Alexander V.; Bennion, Ian
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15/12/2009

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A waveguide-saturable absorber with low propagation loss is fabricated by femtosecond pulses in YAG:Cr4+ crystal. Q-switch operation of a Yb fiber laser with the new saturable absorber having absorption saturation parameters similar to the bulk YAG:Cr4+ crystal is demonstrated.

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http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/17387/1/Opt-Lett-2009.pdf

Ohkrimchuk, Andrey G,; Mezentsev, Vladimir; Dvoyrin, Vladislav V.; Kurkov, Andrey S.; Sholokhov, Evgeny M.; Turitsyn, Sergei K.; Shestakov, Alexander V. and Bennion, Ian (2009). Waveguide-saturable absorber fabricated by femtosecond pulses in YAG:Cr4+ crystal for Q-switched operation of Yb-fiber laser. Optics Letters, 34 (24), pp. 3881-3883.

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http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/17387/

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