Kerr-lens mode-locked polycrystalline Cr: ZnS femtosecond laser pumped by a monolithic Er: YAG laser

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/1/014206

Abstract

We demonstrated a Kerr-lens mode-locked polycrystalline Cr:ZnS laser pumped by a narrow-linewidth linear-polarised monolithic Er:YAG nonplanar ring oscillator operated at 1645 nm. With a 5-mm-thick sapphire plate for intracavity dispersion compensation, a compact and stable Kerr-lens mode-locking operation was realised. The oscillator delivered 125-fs pulses at 2347 nm with an average power of 80 mW. Owing to the special polycrystalline structure of the Cr:ZnS crystal, the second to fourth harmonic generation was observed by random quasi-phase-matching.

Keywords: middle-infrared laser mode-locked laser polycrystalline Cr:ZnS

Received: 19 September 2016
Revised: 13 October 2016
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PACS:	42.65.Re	(Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)
	42.55.Rz	(Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers)
	42.60.Fc	(Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61205130, 61465012, and 61564008).

Corresponding Authors: Jiangfeng Zhu, Zhiyi Wei
E-mail: jfzhu@xidian.edu.cn;zywei@iphy.ac.cn

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Chengfeng Hu(胡呈峰), Jiangfeng Zhu(朱江峰), Zhaohua Wang(王兆华), Xintong Sun(孙芯彤), Long Wei(魏龙), Weijun Ling(令维军), Zhong Dong(董忠), Qing Wang(王庆), Chunqing Gao(高春清), Zhiyi Wei(魏志义) Kerr-lens mode-locked polycrystalline Cr: ZnS femtosecond laser pumped by a monolithic Er: YAG laser 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 014206

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