title: Tunable Yb:KYW laser using a transversely chirped volume Bragg grating.
abstract: We demonstrate a diode-pumped Yb:KYW laser, where the wavelength is controlled by a transversely chirped volume-Bragg-grating, also used as the laser output coupler. By translating the grating, the wavelength could be tuned from 997 nm to 1016 nm, with a spectral bandwidth of 13 GHz and a power up to 3.3 W. The laser cavity is simple and compact, and the tuning method is generally applicable to many other laser systems.
authors.affiliation: Laser Physics, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. ks@laserphysics.kth.se
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Seger
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jacobsson
authors.forename: Valdas
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pasiskevicius
authors.forename: Fredrik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Laurell
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015018:Ytterbium
chemical_list: D015018:Ytterbium