• DocumentCode
    412156
  • Title

    Sub-40-fs pulses with 18-W average power from a passively mode-locked thin disk Yb:YAG laser with nonlinear fiber compression

  • Author

    Brunner, F. ; Sudmeyer, Thomas ; Innerhofer, E. ; Paschotta, R. ; Keller, U. ; Furusawa, K. ; Baggett, J.C. ; Monro, T.M. ; Richardson, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Ultrafast Laser Phys., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2003
  • Abstract
    By combining a passively mode-locked high-power laser with a large mode area holey fiber for nonlinear compression, we generated 33-fs pulses with 18-W average power. The output beam is linearly polarized and close to diffraction-limited.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; microdisc lasers; nonlinear optics; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; 18 W; 33 fs; YAG:Yb; YAl5O12:Yb; Yb:YAG laser; average power; diffraction-limit; high-power laser; nonlinear fiber compression; output beam; passively mode-locking; Fiber lasers; Holey fibers; Laser beams; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse compression methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-748-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1298305