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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
