Title : 
Soliton modelocking via cascaded quadratic nonlinearities in a SESAM-modelocked Yb:CALGO laser
         
        
            Author : 
Mayer, A.S. ; Phillips, C.R. ; Klenner, A. ; Keller, Ulrich
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Phys., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We present soliton modelocking based on cascading of quadratic nonlinearities using an LBO crystal in a SESAM-modelocked Yb:CaGdAlO4 laser cavity, enabling pulse formation in the positive GDD-regime, reaching 114-fs pulses at 1.1-W average output power.
         
        
            Keywords : 
calcium compounds; gadolinium compounds; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical delay lines; optical dispersion; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; solid lasers; ytterbium; CaGdAlO4:Yb; LBO crystal; SESAM-modelocked ytterbiujm:CALGO laser cavity; cascaded quadratic nonlinearities; group delay dispersion; optical pulse formation; positive GDD-regime; power 1.1 W; soliton modelocking; time 114 fs; Cavity resonators; Crystals; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Power generation; Power lasers; Solitons;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA