• DocumentCode
    1772365
  • Title

    Pulse energy scaling of modelocked oscillators: Moving from 80 µJ to >100 µJ from SESAM-modelocked thin disk lasers

  • Author

    Saraceno, Clara J. ; Emaury, Florian ; Schriber, Cinia ; Hoffmann, Marco ; Golling, M. ; Sudmeyer, Thomas ; Keller, Ulrich

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Inst. for Quantum Electron., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    An Yb:YAG SESAM-modelocked thin-disk laser delivering 1.07 ps pulses with record-high pulse energy of 80 μJ at 242 W of average power is presented. Improved SESAM designs and nonlinearity limits are explored towards multi-100 μJ modelocked oscillators.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; YAG:Yb; Yb:YAG SESAM-modelocked thin-disk laser; average power; energy 80 muJ to 100 muJ; improved SESAM designs; multimodelocked oscillators; nonlinearity limits; power 242 W; pulse energy scaling; time 1.07 ps; Dispersion; Elementary particle vacuum; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Oscillators; Power lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989921
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1772365