8.5  W mode-locked Yb:Lu1.5Y1.5Al5O12 laser with master oscillator power amplifiers

We report on a diode-pumped passively mode-locked Yb:Lu(1.5)Y(1.5)Al(5)O(12) (Yb:LuYAG) laser for the first time to our knowledge. With the mixed crystal of Yb:LuYAG as gain medium, the mode-locked laser generated 2.2 W of average output power with a repetition rate of 83.9 MHz and pulse duration of...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Applied optics. Optical technology and biomedical optics 2015-02, Vol.54 (5), p.1041
Main Authors: Wang, Fuyong, Qin, Zhipeng, Xie, Guoqiang, Yuan, Peng, Qian, Liejia, Xu, Xiaodong, Xu, Jun
Format: Article
Language:English
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:We report on a diode-pumped passively mode-locked Yb:Lu(1.5)Y(1.5)Al(5)O(12) (Yb:LuYAG) laser for the first time to our knowledge. With the mixed crystal of Yb:LuYAG as gain medium, the mode-locked laser generated 2.2 W of average output power with a repetition rate of 83.9 MHz and pulse duration of 2.4 ps at the wavelength of 1030 nm. In order to obtain higher output power, the output from the mode-locked oscillator was further amplified to 8.5 W by two-stage single-pass amplifiers. The high-power picosecond laser is very useful for applications such as pumping of midinfrared optical parametric oscillators, material microprocessing, and UV light generation.
ISSN:2155-3165
DOI:10.1364/AO.54.001041