69-fs and broadly-tunable diode-pumped Yb:BOYS laser

Author

Druon, E. ; Raybaut, P. ; Chenais, Sebastien ; Balembois, Francois ; Georges, Patrick ; Mohr, S. ; Kopf, D. ; Gaume, R. ; Aka, G. ; Viana, Bruno ; Vivien, D.

Author_Institution

Lab. Charles Fabry de Inst. d´Optique, UMR 8501 du CNRS, Orsay, France

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

24

Abstract

Summary from only given. We present the first diode pumped femtosecond Yb:Sr/sub 3/Y(BO/sub 3/)/sub 3/ (also called Yb:BOYS) laser. Laser materials suitable for efficient, simple and compact ultrafast laser sources should provide a broad emission bandwidth, should exhibit favorable thermal properties, and should offer the possibility to be directly diode-pumped.

Keywords

laser tuning; optical pumping; solid lasers; strontium compounds; thermo-optical effects; ytterbium; 69 fs; Sr/sub 3/Y(BO/sub 3/)/sub 3/:Yb; Yb:BOYS lasers; Yb:Sr/sub 3/Y(BO/sub 3/)/sub 3/ lasers; broad emission bandwidth; broadly-tunable diode-pumped lasers; compact ultrafast laser sources; diode-pumped; femtosecond lasers; laser materials; thermal properties; Laser beams; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Optimized production technology; Power lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033385

Filename

1033385