Femtosecond Yb:Lu_2O_3 thin disk laser with 63 W of average power
2009; Optica Publishing Group; Volume: 34; Issue: 18 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1364/ol.34.002823
ISSN1539-4794
AutoresC. R. E. Baer, Christian Kränkel, Clara J. Saraceno, Oliver H. Heckl, M. Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, R. Peters, K. Petermann, G. Hüber, U. Keller,
Tópico(s)Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
ResumoWe present successful power-scaling of an Yb:Lu2O3 thin disk laser to record high-power levels both in cw and mode-locked operation. In a simple multimode resonator we achieved 149 W of output power in cw operation with 73% optical-to-optical efficiency (ηopt). Building an 81 MHz fundamental transverse mode resonator with dispersion compensation and a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) for passive mode locking we achieved 63 W of average power in 535 fs pulses (ηopt=35%). The output beam is nearly diffraction limited (M2<1.2). The 0.78 μJ pulses with a peak power of 1.28 MW had a central wavelength of 1034 nm and were close to the Fourier transform limit. With an SESAM with a larger modulation depth we obtained pulses as short as 329 fs at 40 W average power corresponding to a pulse energy of 0.49 μJ and a peak power of 1.32 MW.
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