Yb:KLuW thin disk oscillator in solitary and chirped pulse operation

Author

Palmer, G. ; Schultze, M. ; Siegel, M. ; Steinmann, A. ; Morgner, U.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Quantum Opt., Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Hannover, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

We present, what is to our knowledge the first passively mode-locked Yb:KLuW thin disk oscillator. The 105 mum thin and 10 % doped Yb:KLuW thin disk crystal is pumped by a fibre coupled pump diode delivering up to 140 W pump power at a wavelength of 980 nm. Passive mode-locking is obtained by a saturable absorber mirror. In order to achieve solitary mode-locking we had to compensate for the material dispersion and Kerr-nonlinearities from both the optical components and the air inside the resonator by using negative dispersive mirrors (GTI).

Keywords

chirp modulation; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical Kerr effect; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; potassium compounds; solid lasers; ytterbium; KLuW:Yb; Kerr-nonlinearity; chirped pulse operation; fibre coupled pump diode; laser resonator; material dispersion; negative dispersive mirror; saturable absorber mirror; size 105 mum; solitary mode-locking; thin disk crystal; thin disk oscillator; wavelength 980 nm; Chirp; Mirrors; Optical materials; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Optimized production technology; Oscillators; Power generation; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192656

Filename

5192656