Photonics Research, 2018, 6 (2): 02000127, Published Online: Jul. 10, 2018
Diode-pumped power scalable Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CYA laser Download: 667次
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Fig. 1. Experimental setup of the high-power Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CYA laser. C1 and C2, concave mirrors with ROC of 300 mm; GTI1 and GTI2, Gires–Tournois interferometer mirrors with total dispersion of − 1850 fs 2 per bounce; C3 and C4, concave mirrors with ROC of 100 mm; M1, dichroic mirror; M2 and M3, flat mirrors with high reflectivity; OC, output coupler with transmittance of 2.5%.
Fig. 2. Output performances of the continuous wave (CW) and Kerr-lens mode-locked operations of Yb:CYA laser, respectively.
Fig. 3. Pulse characterization results of the KLM Yb:CYA laser. (a) CW (red) and mode-locked (blue) spectra, inset is the beam profile at the maximum average power of 1.5 W. (b) Measured intensity autocorrelation trace shown as black dashed while the fitted sech 2 trace shown by red solid curve.
Fig. 4. Oscilloscope traces of the high-power Kerr-lens mode-locked pulse train in the time scales of (a) 10 ns/div, and (b) 4 μs/div, respectively.
Fig. 5. RF spectra of the Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CYA laser. (a) RF spectrum at the fundamental beat note with the resolution bandwidth of 1 kHz. (b) RF spectrum at 1 GHz wide-span range with the resolution bandwidth of 100 kHz.
Fig. 6. Summary of the sub-100 fs mode-locked lasers based on bulk Yb-doped crystals with watt-level average output power [1,46" target="_self" style="display: inline;">–6 ,8,12,13,22 –26" target="_self" style="display: inline;"> –26].
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Wenlong Tian, Yingnan Peng, Ziyue Zhang, Zijiao Yu, Jiangfeng Zhu, Xiaodong Xu, Zhiyi Wei. Diode-pumped power scalable Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CYA laser[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(2): 02000127.