A passively-Q-switched neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) ceramic microchip laser was demonstrated to emit azimuthally polarized beam bus using a chromium-doped YAG (Cr 4+ :YAG) crystal as saturable absorber and a multilayer concentric subwavelength grating as polarization-selective output coupler. The laser's output power reached 512 mW with an initial slope efficiency of nearly 60%, and the pulse had 1.15-kW peak power with 40-ns duration and 11-kHz repetition rate at 3.9-W absorbed pump power. The laser beam's polarization degree was 97.6%. The thermal lensing effect in Nd:YAG microchip remained as a problem to be solved.
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