Ultrafast ytterbium-doped bulk lasers and laser amplifiers

被引:363
作者
Hönninger, C
Paschotta, R
Graf, M
Morier-Genoud, F
Zhang, G
Moser, M
Biswal, S
Nees, J
Braun, A
Mourou, GA
Johannsen, I
Giesen, A
Seeber, W
Keller, U
机构
[1] ETH Honggerberg, HPT, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Quantum Elect, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] CSEM Zurich, CH-8048 Zurich, Switzerland
[3] Univ Michigan, Ctr Ultrafast Opt Sci, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 USA
[4] Univ Stuttgart, Inst Strahlwerkzeuge, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
[5] Univ Jena, Otto Schott Inst, D-07743 Jena, Germany
来源
APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS | 1999年 / 69卷 / 01期
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10.1007/s003400050762
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We review recent achievements with ultrafast bulk lasers and amplifiers based an Yb:YAG and Yb:glass. Special attention is paid to those aspects of the quasi-three-level nature of these gain media that an important for short-pulse generation. The potential of Yb-doped media for efficient short-pulse generation and amplification is compared to their Nd-doped counterparts.
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