Femtosecond thin-disk laser with 141 W of average power

被引:144
作者
Baer, Cyrill Roman Emmanuel [1 ]
Kraenkel, Christian [1 ,2 ]
Saraceno, Clara Jody [1 ]
Heckl, Oliver Hubert [1 ]
Golling, Matthias [1 ]
Peters, Rigo [2 ]
Petermann, Klaus [2 ]
Suedmeyer, Thomas [1 ]
Huber, Guenter [2 ]
Keller, Ursula [1 ]
机构
[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Inst Quantum Elect, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] Univ Hamburg, Inst Laser Phys, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
SATURABLE ABSORBER; PULSE GENERATION; CRYSTAL-GROWTH; YB-LU2O3; OSCILLATORS;
D O I
10.1364/OL.35.002302
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We present a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror mode-locked thin disk laser based on Yb:Lu(2)O(3) with an average power of 141 W and an optical-to-optical efficiency of more than 40%. The ideal soliton pulses have an FWHM duration of 738 fs, an energy of 2.4 mu J, and a corresponding peak power of 2.8 MW. The repetition rate was 60 MHz and the beam was close to the diffraction limit with a measured M(2) below 1.2. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America
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页码:2302 / 2304
页数:3
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