Diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond Yb:YAG ceramic laser

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/2/024205

Abstract We experimentally demonstrated a diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond laser based on an Yb:YAG ceramic. Stable laser pulses with 97-fs duration, 2.8-nJ pulse energy, and 320-mW average power were obtained. The femtosecond oscillator operated at a central wavelength of 1049 nm and a repetition rate of 115 MHz. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a Kerr-lens mode-locked operation in a diode-pumped Yb:YAG ceramic laser with sub-100 fs pulse duration.

Keywords: diode pump Yb:YAG ceramic Kerr-lens mode-locking

Received: 25 July 2015
Revised: 10 September 2015
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PACS:	42.55.Rz	(Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers)
	42.55.Xi	(Diode-pumped lasers)
	42.60.Fc	(Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)
	42.65.Hw	(Phase conjugation; photorefractive and Kerr effects)

Fund: Project supported by the National Major Scientific Instrument Development Project of China (Grant No. 2012YQ120047), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61205130), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. JB140502).

Corresponding Authors: Jiang-Feng Zhu
E-mail: jfzhu@xidian.edu.cn

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Zi-Ye Gao(高子叶), Jiang-Feng Zhu(朱江峰), Ke Wang(汪珂), Jun-Li Wang(王军利), Zhao-Hua Wang(王兆华), Zhi-Yi Wei(魏志义) Diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond Yb:YAG ceramic laser 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 024205

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