Rare-earth doped double tungstate crystals for solid-state bulk, thin-disk and waveguide lasers

Author

Petrov, Valentin

Author_Institution

Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

I will review recent achievements with diode-or resonantly (laser-) pumped lasers and amplifiers based on double tungstate crystals on all time scales, from continuous-wave (CW) to Q-switched and ultrashort (picosecond and femtosecond) pulse operation of mode-locked lasers as well as short pulse amplification. The spectral coverage is basically in the 1-2 μm range, with special emphasis on recent achievements in the 2-μm range.

Keywords

Q-switching; amplifiers; holmium compounds; laser mode locking; optical materials; optical pumping; potassium compounds; solid lasers; thulium compounds; waveguide lasers; ytterbium compounds; KHo(WO₄)₂; KTm(WO₄)₂; KYb(WO₄)₂; Q-switched pulse operation; continuous-wave pulse operation; diode-pumped lasers; mode-locked lasers; optical amplifiers; rare-earth doped double tungstate crystals; resonantly pumped lasers; short pulse amplification; solid-state bulk lasers; thin-disk waveguide lasers; ultrashort pulse operation; wavelength 1 mum to 2 mum;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942786

Filename

5942786