Guo Lin, Hou Wei, Zhang Hong-Bo, Sun Zhi-Pei, Cui Dafu, Xu Zu-Yan, Wang Yong-Gang, Ma Xiao-Yu
Opt Express. 2005 May 30;13(11):4085-9. doi: 10.1364/opex.13.004085.
We report on a diode-pumped CW passively mode locked ceramic Nd:YAG laser with SESAM (semiconductor saturable absorber mirror), wavelength 1064nm. At a pump power of 7.6w, the pulse width was estimated to be ~8.3ps with repetition rate ~130MHz and the average output power was 1.59w. To our knowledge, this was the first demonstration that ceramic Nd:YAG was used for diode pumped CW passively mode locking.