Sub-50-fs Kerr Lens Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Lasers

C. Paradis; N. Modsching; M. Gaponenko; F. Labaye; F. Emaury; A. Diebold; I. Graumann; B. Deppe; B. Deppe; C. Kränkel; C. Kränkel; C. Kränkel; V. J. Wittwer; T. Südmeyer

2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference
(Optica Publishing Group, 2017),
paper PD_1_4

Sub-50-fs Kerr Lens Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Lasers

C. Paradis, N. Modsching, M. Gaponenko, F. Labaye, F. Emaury, A. Diebold, I. Graumann, B. Deppe, C. Kränkel, V. J. Wittwer, and T. Südmeyer

European Quantum Electronics Conference 2017

Munich Germany
25–29 June 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5090-6736-7

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C. Paradis, N. Modsching, M. Gaponenko, F. Labaye, F. Emaury, A. Diebold, I. Graumann, B. Deppe, C. Kränkel, V. J. Wittwer, and T. Südmeyer, "Sub-50-fs Kerr Lens Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Lasers," in 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference, (Optica Publishing Group, 2017), paper PD_1_4.

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Abstract

Ultrafast thin-disk lasers (TDLs) are often thought to deliver longer pulses than bulk lasers (Fig. 1a). Here we prove that this assumption is wrong and demonstrate the shortest pulses from any Yb:Lu₂O₃ and Yb:CaGdAlO₄ (Yb:CALGO) laser (cf. Tab. 1). Our Kerr lens mode-locked (KLM) Yb:Lu₂O₃ TDL generates 4.5 W in 49-fs pulses and 1.7 W in 40-fs pulses (being 40 % shorter than Yb:Lu₂O₃ bulk lasers [1]). In addition, we demonstrate the first KLM Yb:CALGO TDL. It generates 30-fs pulses, which is the shortest duration ever obtained from ultrafast TDLs [2,3] and equal to the shortest pulses obtained from Yb-bulk oscillators [4].

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