Title :
High power Yb:CALGO thin-disk lasers in cw and fs regime
Author :
Ricaud, S. ; Jaffres, Anael ; Wentsch, K. ; Suganuma, A. ; Viana, Bruno ; Loiseau, Pascal ; Weichelt, B. ; Abdou-Ahmed, M. ; Voss, Andreas ; Graf, Thomas ; Rytz, D. ; Honninger, Clemens ; Mottay, Eric ; Hanna, Marc ; Georges, Patrick ; Druon, Frederic
Author_Institution :
Lab. Charles Fabry, Univ. Paris Sud, Palaiseau, France
Abstract :
Results on high-power oscillators based on Yb:CALGO in thindisk architecture are presented, in fs regime, 28W, 1.3μJ, 300 fs pulses and 20W, 0.9μJ, 197 fs pulses and in cw multimode regime 152W.
Keywords :
calcium compounds; gadolinium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; laser modes; solid lasers; ytterbium; CaGdAlO4:Yb; cw multimode regime; energy 0.9 muJ; energy 1.3 muJ; fs pulses; fs regime; high-power oscillators; high-power thin-disk lasers; power 152 W; power 20 W; power 28 W; thin-disk architecture; time 197 fs; time 300 fs; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Crystals; Laser beams; Oscillators; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
