[16p-Z11-1~14] 3.5 Laser system and materials

[16p-Z11-7] Development of transparent Yb:S-FAP polycrystalline ceramics

〇(B)Daichi Kato¹, Takumi Kato¹, Naohiro Horiuchi², Koji Morita³, Byung-Nam Kim³, Hiroaki Furuse¹ (1.Kitami Inst. Tech., 2.Tokyo Med. Dent. Univ., 3.NIMS)

Keywords:laser materials, transparent ceramics

Transparent polycrystalline ceramics have played an important role in the field of solid-state lasers because of their many advantages. In particular, the establishment of transparent ceramic technology in anisotropic materials dramatically expands the range of material development and leads to the development of new light sources. For these reasons, we have studied Yb doped hexagonal S-FAP (Sr₁₀(PO₄)₆F₂) and succeeded in fabricating transparent polycrystalline ceramics. We report the results of characterization of the obtained sample.