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

Andrey G, Ohkrimchuk; Vladimir Mezentsev; Vladislav V. Dvoyrin; Andrey S. Kurkov; Evgeny M. Sholokhov; Sergei K. Turitsyn; Alexander V. Shestakov; Ian Bennion

doi:10.1364/OL.34.003881

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

Andrey G, Ohkrimchuk, Vladimir Mezentsev, Vladislav V. Dvoyrin, Andrey S. Kurkov, Evgeny M. Sholokhov, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Alexander V. Shestakov, Ian Bennion

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3881-3883
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	34
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.34.003881
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2009

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A waveguide-saturable absorber
fabricated by femtosecond pulses in YAG
Cr4+ crystal
Q-switch operation of a Yb fiber laser
bulk YAG

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