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Extreme light fields and their applications

Investigation of lasing characteristics of 1% Nd : YAG laser ceramics

S. M. Vatnik^a, V. V. Osipov^b, I. A. Vedin^a, P. F. Kurbatov<sup>a

a</sup> Institute of Laser Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
^b Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg

Abstract: The lasing characteristics of 1 % Nd : YAG laser ceramics synthesised at the Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences are studied. CW lasing is obtained in all the samples with the slope and total optical efficiencies of 25 % and 18 %, respectively. Intrinsic absorption and scattering losses in the ceramics are estimated.

Keywords: Nd :YAG laser ceramics, diode pumping, lasing efficiency, transmission spectra.

PACS: 81.05.Je, 42.70.Hj, 42.55.Rz, 42.60.Lh

Received: 24.12.2012

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2013, 43:3, 288–290

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