Widely tunable pulse durations from a passively mode-locked thin disk Yb:YAG laser

Author

Brunner, Frank ; Paschotta, R. ; Spuhler, G.J. ; Aus der Au, J. ; Morier-Genoud, Francois ; Keller, Ulrich ; Hovel, R. ; Moser, Michael ; Erhard, S. ; Karszewski, M. ; Giesen, Adolf

Author_Institution

Inst. for Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

333

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have demonstrated a novel configuration of a passively mode-locked high-power thin disk laser, involving two different reflection angles on the thin disk. This allowed us to generate soliton-like pulses in a very wide range of pulse durations. In this way, we have greatly expanded the range of possible applications for this novel laser scheme, which is based on a power-scalable concept and thus promises to soon generate the by far highest average output powers both in the femtosecond and picosecond regime.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; solid lasers; ytterbium; YAG:Yb; YAl5O12:Yb; etalon; femtosecond regime; high-power laser; laser cavity stability; passively mode-locked laser; picosecond regime; power-scalable concept; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; soliton-like pulses; thin disk Yb:YAG laser; widely tunable pulse durations; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser theory; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power generation; Power lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947876

Filename

947876