Mode-locked thin disk lasers with high pulse energies

Author

Neuhaus, J. ; Bauer, D. ; Kleinbauer, J. ; Killi, A. ; Weiler, S. ; Sutter, D.H. ; Dekorsy, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This study investigates a mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk laser oscillator with self-imaging active multipass cell and large output coupling rates for a suppression of nonlinear optical effects.The experimentally generated pulse energies of more than 25 muJ at sub-picosecond pulse length of 928 fs are believed to be the highest ever obtained directly from an ultrafast laser oscillator without further amplification stages. Stable single pulse operation in ambient atmosphere is obtained with this system, with average output powers above 76 W at a repetition rate of 2.93 MHz.

Keywords

laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; ytterbium; YAG:Yb; Yb:YAG laser oscillator; ambient atmosphere; frequency 2.93 MHz; high pulse energies; mode-locked lasers; nonlinear optical effects suppression; output coupling rates; power 76 W; self-imaging active multipass cell; stable single pulse operation; subpicosecond pulse length; thin disk lasers; time 928 fs; ultrafast laser oscillator; Atmosphere; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission; 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.2009.5192657

Filename

5192657