Advances of Yb: CALGO laser crystals

H Wang, J Pan, Y Meng, Q Liu, Y Shen - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Yb: CaGdAlO4, or Yb: CALGO, a new laser crystal, has been attracting increasing attention
recently in a myriad of laser technologies. This crystal features salient thermal, spectroscopic …

32-fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CaGdAlO4 oscillator optically pumped by a bright fiber laser

P Sévillano, P Georges, F Druon, D Descamps… - Optics Letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
In this study, we report on a pure Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb: CaGdAlO_4 oscillator optically
pumped by a diffraction-limited fiber laser. At the repetition rate of 96 MHz, several …

Diode-pumped 45 fs Yb: CALGO laser oscillator with 1.7 MW of peak power

S Manjooran, A Major - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A high-power sub-50 fs diode-pumped Yb: CALGO laser oscillator is demonstrated. The
peak power achieved for 45 fs pulses directly from the oscillator was 1.7 MW. To the best of …

Generation of 30  fs pulses from a diode-pumped graphene mode-locked Yb:CaYAlO4 laser

J Ma, H Huang, K Ning, X Xu, G Xie, L Qian, KP Loh… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Stable 30 fs pulses centered at 1068 nm (less than 10 optical cycles) are demonstrated in a
diode pumped Yb: CaYAlO_4 laser by using high-quality chemical vapor deposited …

Diode-pumped ultrafast Yb: KGW laser with 56 fs pulses and multi-100 kW peak power based on SESAM and Kerr-lens mode locking

R Akbari, KA Fedorova, EU Rafailov, A Major - Applied Physics B, 2017 - Springer
A high-power sub-60 fs mode-locked diode-pumped Yb: KGW laser based on hybrid action
of an InGaAs quantum-dot saturable absorber mirror and Kerr-lens mode locking was …

Cutting-edge high-power ultrafast thin disk oscillators

CJ Saraceno, C Schriber, F Emaury, OH Heckl… - Applied Sciences, 2013 - mdpi.com
A growing number of applications in science and industry are currently pushing the
development of ultrafast laser technologies that enable high average powers. SESAM …

87 fs mode-locked Tm,Ho:CaYAlO4 laser at ∼2043 nm

Y Zhao, Y Wang, X Zhang, X Mateos, Z Pan, P Loiko… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We report on, to the best of our knowledge, the first sub-100 fs mode-locked Ho^ 3+-laser in
the 2 μm spectral range employing a disordered co-doped Tm, Ho: CaYAlO_4 (Tm, Ho …

SESAM mode-locked Yb:CaGdAlO4 thin disk laser with 62 fs pulse generation

A Diebold, F Emaury, C Schriber, M Golling… - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We present a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) mode-locked thin disk
laser (TDL) based on Yb: CaGdAlO_4 (Yb: CALGO) generating 62 fs pulses, which is the …

Broadly tunable ultrafast pump-probe system operating at multi-kHz repetition rate

A Grupp, A Budweg, MP Fischer, J Allerbeck… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Femtosecond systems based on ytterbium as active medium are ideal for driving ultrafast
optical parametric amplifiers in a broad frequency range. The excellent stability of the source …

Thermo-optic characterization of Yb:CaGdAlO4 laser crystal

P Loiko, F Druon, P Georges, B Viana… - Optical Materials …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Principal thermo-optic coefficients (TOCs), dn_o/dT and dn_e/dT, are measured for Yb:
CaGdAlO_4 crystal, for the first time, to our knowledge. At the wavelength of~ 1 μm, they …