• DocumentCode
    1771805
  • Title

    Power-scaling a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator via enlarging the cavity mode in the Kerr-medium

  • Author

    Brons, Jonathan ; Pervak, V. ; Fedulova, Elena ; Seidel, Mike ; Bauer, Dominik ; Sutter, David ; Kalashnikov, Vladimir ; Apolonskiy, Alexander ; Pronin, Oleg ; Krausz, F.

  • Author_Institution
    Max-Planck-Inst. fur Quantenopt., Garching, Germany
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report on a purely hard-aperture Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator delivering 230-W, 11.5-μJ, 330-fs (30 MW) in air. To our knowledge this is the highest average power achieved from KLM oscillators so far.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; lenses; optical Kerr effect; solid lasers; ytterbium; KLM oscillators; Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator; Kerr-medium; YAG:Yb; average power; cavity mode; energy 11.5 muJ; power 230 W; power 30 MW; power scaling; time 330 fs; Cavity resonators; Mirrors; Optical resonators; Oscillators; Power generation; Thermal stability; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989614
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1771805