Title :
Pulse energy scaling of modelocked oscillators: Moving from 80 µJ to >100 µJ from SESAM-modelocked thin disk lasers
Author :
Saraceno, Clara J. ; Emaury, Florian ; Schriber, Cinia ; Hoffmann, Marco ; Golling, M. ; Sudmeyer, Thomas ; Keller, Ulrich
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Inst. for Quantum Electron., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
An Yb:YAG SESAM-modelocked thin-disk laser delivering 1.07 ps pulses with record-high pulse energy of 80 μJ at 242 W of average power is presented. Improved SESAM designs and nonlinearity limits are explored towards multi-100 μJ modelocked oscillators.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; YAG:Yb; Yb:YAG SESAM-modelocked thin-disk laser; average power; energy 80 muJ to 100 muJ; improved SESAM designs; multimodelocked oscillators; nonlinearity limits; power 242 W; pulse energy scaling; time 1.07 ps; Dispersion; Elementary particle vacuum; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Oscillators; Power lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
