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Abstract
High-power femtosecond pulses delivered at a high-repetition rate will aid machining throughput and improve signal-to-noise ratios for sensitive measurements. Here we demonstrate a Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond Yb:YAG ring-cavity thin-disk oscillator with a multi-pass scheme for the laser beam. With four passes through the thin disk, 175-fs pulses were delivered from the oscillator at an average power of 71.5 W and a repetition rate of 65.3 MHz. The corresponding intra-cavity peak power of 110 MW is ample for intra-cavity nonlinear conversion into more exotic wavelength ranges. With six passes, the average output power reached 101.3 W. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest average output power of any mode-locked ring laser. These results confirm the viability of using multi-pass configuration on a thin-disk ring oscillator for high-throughput femtosecond applications.
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