Generation of 15 W femtosecond laser pulse from a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb: YAG thin-disk oscillator

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/9/094207

Abstract We demonstrated a robust power-scalable Kerr-lens mode-locked (KLM) operation based on a Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator. 15-W, 272-fs pulses were realized at a repetition rate of 86.7 MHz with an additional Kerr medium and a 2.5 mm hard aperture in the cavity. 247-fs pulses with an average power of 11 W could also be obtained by using a 2.4 mm hard aperture. Based on this shorter pulse, high efficient second-harmonic generation (SHG) was performed with a 1.7-mm-long LiB₃O₅ (LBO) crystal. The SHG laser power was up to 5 W with the power fluctuation RMS of 1% measured over one hour.

Keywords: thin disk Kerr-lens mode-locking high power second harmonic generation

Received: 23 February 2016
Revised: 24 May 2016
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PACS:	42.55.-f	(Lasers)
	42.55.Xi	(Diode-pumped lasers)
	42.65.Re	(Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2013CB922402), the National Major Instrument Program of China (Grant No. 2012YQ120047), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11434016 and 61210017).

Corresponding Authors: Zhiyi Wei
E-mail: zywei@iphy.ac.cn

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Yingnan Peng(彭英楠), Jinwei Zhang(张金伟), Zhaohua Wang(王兆华), Jiangfeng Zhu(朱江峰), Dehua Li(李德华), Zhiyi Wei(魏志义) Generation of 15 W femtosecond laser pulse from a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb: YAG thin-disk oscillator 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 094207

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