Title :
High-power femtosecond nonlinear devices pumped with a mode-locked thin disk laser
Author :
Sudmeyer, Thomas ; Brunner, F. ; Innerhofer, E. ; Paschotta, R. ; Keller, U. ; Usami, Takashi ; Ito, H. ; Nakamura, M. ; Kitamura, K. ; Furusawa, Kazuya ; Baggett, J.C. ; Monro, T.M. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
We report on experiments with high-power femtosecond pulses from a passively mode-locked thin disk Yb:YAG laser: nonlinear fiber compression to 33 fs with 18 W average power and a fiber-feedback parametric oscillator generating 15 W in the 1.5-μm region.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical fibres; optical parametric oscillators; solid lasers; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; 1.5 micron; 15 W; 18 W; 33 fs; YAG:Yb; YAl5O12:Yb; Yb:YAG laser; fiber-feedback parametric oscillator; high-power femtosecond pulse; nonlinear device; nonlinear fiber compression; optical pumping; passively mode-locked thin disk laser; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber devices; Optical pulse generation; Oscillators; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse compression methods; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7734-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312306
