A graphene-based passively Q-switched polycrystalline Er:YAG ceramic laser operating at 1645 nm

作者:Zhu Z X*; Wang Y; Chen H; Huang H T; Shen D Y; Zhang J; Tang D Y
来源:Laser Physics Letters, 2013, 10(5): 055801.
DOI:10.1088/1612-2011/10/5/055801

摘要

Efficient passive Q-switching operation of a 1532 nm in-band pumped polycrystalline Er:YAG ceramic 1645 nm laser is demonstrated in this work. Graphene deposited on a quartz substrate was used as the saturable absorber for the Q-switching operation. Under an incident pump power of 4.14 W, an average output power of 528 mW was obtained, with the pulse energy and pulse repetition rate being 7.08 mu J and 74.6 kHz, respectively.