Diode-pumped sub-100 fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb3+:Sc2O3 ceramic laser.
Diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked laser operations of Yb3+:Sc2O3 ceramics have been achieved. 92 fs pulses with the average power of 850 mW under 3.89 W incident pump power were obtained at a center wavelength of 1042 nm. The optical-to-optical efficiency was 21.9%. 90 fs pulses with the average power of 160 mW were also obtained at a center wavelength of 1092 nm. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb3+:Sc2O3 laser.
Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. tokura@ils.uec.ac.jp
Masaki
M
Tokurakawa
Akira
A
Shirakawa
Ken-ichi
K
Ueda
Hideki
H
Yagi
Takagimi
T
Yanagitani
Alexander A
AA
Kaminskii