Title :
Rare-earth doped double tungstate crystals for solid-state bulk, thin-disk and waveguide lasers
Author :
Petrov, Valentin
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
I will review recent achievements with diode-or resonantly (laser-) pumped lasers and amplifiers based on double tungstate crystals on all time scales, from continuous-wave (CW) to Q-switched and ultrashort (picosecond and femtosecond) pulse operation of mode-locked lasers as well as short pulse amplification. The spectral coverage is basically in the 1-2 μm range, with special emphasis on recent achievements in the 2-μm range.
Keywords :
Q-switching; amplifiers; holmium compounds; laser mode locking; optical materials; optical pumping; potassium compounds; solid lasers; thulium compounds; waveguide lasers; ytterbium compounds; KHo(WO4)2; KTm(WO4)2; KYb(WO4)2; Q-switched pulse operation; continuous-wave pulse operation; diode-pumped lasers; mode-locked lasers; optical amplifiers; rare-earth doped double tungstate crystals; resonantly pumped lasers; short pulse amplification; solid-state bulk lasers; thin-disk waveguide lasers; ultrashort pulse operation; wavelength 1 mum to 2 mum;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942786
