Highly efficient 4 W, 161 fs, Yb:KGW laser oscillator

Author

Hoos, F. ; Meyrath, T.P. ; Li, Sinan ; Braun, B. ; Giessen, H.

Author_Institution

4th Phys. Inst., Universtity of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate that the efficiency of diode pumped sub-200 fs slab lasers can be significantly increased by employing the N_g-cut orientation of Yb:KGW and the application of high-power broad-area diodes. Yb:KGW crystal slab is pumped by a single broad area diode which is capable to emit up to 18 W of pump power from a single emitter. The laser oscillator is solitary mode-locked by employing a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM).

Keywords

gadolinium compounds; laser beams; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; potassium compounds; solid lasers; ytterbium; KGd(WO₄)₂:Yb; SESAM; diode pumped slab lasers; high-power broad-area diodes; laser oscillator; power 4 W; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; solitary mode-locking; time 161 fs; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Mirrors; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Oscillators; Pump lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5194645

Filename

5194645