First demonstration of laser emission from an Yb:YAG Single Crystal Fiber grown by the Micro-Pulling Down technique

Damien Sangla (1, 2) , Nicolas Aubry (1, 3) , Julien Didierjean (3) , Didier Perrodin (3) , François Balembois (2) , K. Lebbou (1) , Alain Brenier (1) , Patrick Georges (2) , Jean-Marie Fourmigue (3) , Olivier Tillement (1)

1 LPCML - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
3 Fibercryst

We present the first laser demonstration obtained from an Yb:YAG single-crystal fiber directly grown by the micro-pulling-down technique, with 2.2-W of average output power at 1031-nm for 50-W of incident pump power at 940-nm.

Keywords: crystal growth; fibre lasers; laser beams; optical fibre fabrication; optical materials; optical pumping; ytterbium

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Damien Sangla, Nicolas Aubry, Julien Didierjean, Didier Perrodin, François Balembois, et al.. First demonstration of laser emission from an Yb:YAG Single Crystal Fiber grown by the Micro-Pulling Down technique. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2008, May 2008, San José, United States. ⟨10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551403⟩. ⟨hal-00584522⟩