Highly efficient femtosecond Yb:KYW laser pumped by a single narrow-stripe laser diode

Author

Lagatsky, A.A. ; Rafailov, E.U. ; Leburn, C.G. ; Brown, C.T.A. ; Sibbett, W. ; Xiang, N. ; Okhotnikov, O.G.

Author_Institution

Ultrafast Photonics Colloboration, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

88

Abstract

Yb-doped crystals have attracted strong interest during past few years especially in the development of efficient, simple and robust diode-pumped femtosecond lasers in the 1μm spectral range. This article deals with the development of a low-threshold and highly efficient femtosecond Yb:KYW laser that incorporates a low-loss semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) for self-starting mode-locking and a narrow-stripe InGaAs laser diode as a pump source.

Keywords

gallium arsenide; high-speed optical techniques; indium compounds; infrared spectra; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical losses; optical materials; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; potassium compounds; solid lasers; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; 1 micron; InGaAs; KY(WO₄)₂:Yb; Yb-doped crystals; diode-pumped femtosecond lasers; femtosecond Yb:KYW laser; low-loss semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; mode-locking; narrow-stripe laser diode; optical pumping; pump source; Crystals; Diode lasers; Indium gallium arsenide; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Pump lasers; Robustness; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7734-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312149

Filename

1312149