title: Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Yb:Y3Ga5O12 laser.
abstract: We experimentally demonstrated femtosecond operation in a diode-pumped Yb:Y(3)Ga(5)O(12) laser for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. By using Gires-Tournois interferometer mirrors for dispersion compensation and a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror for passive mode locking, pulses with a duration as short as 245 fs at the central wavelength of 1045 nm have been produced at a repetition rate of 64.3 MHz. Under the full pump power of 7 W, the maximum output power was 570 mW, with an average slope efficiency of 14.1%.
authors.affiliation: Joint Laboratory of Advanced Technology in Measurement, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
authors.forename: Yongdong
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhiyi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Binbin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Changwen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yuwan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Dehua
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhiguo
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Huaijin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jiyang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Haohai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Kui
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authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Junli
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang