High-brightness fiber laser-pumped 68 fs-2.3 W Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CaF2 oscillator
- Machinet, Guillaume
- Sevillano, P.
- Guichard, F.
- Dubrasquet, R.
- Camy, P.
- Doualan, Jean-Louis
- Moncorgé, Richard
- Georges, Patrick
- Druon, Frédéric
- Descamps, D.
- Cormier, Eric
Publication date
January 2013
DOI Publisher
Optical Society of America - OSA PublishingAbstract
International audienceBy using a high-brightness fiber pump laser, we demonstrate a pure Kerr-lens mode-locked (ML) Yb:CaF2 oscillator. The laser delivers 68 fs pulses with 2.3 W average power at 73 MHz repetition rate and an optical-to-optical efficiency of 33% is achieved. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of Kerr-lens mode-locking in Yb:CaF2. Incidentally, we report here the highest average power ever achieved for a sub-100-fs active Kerr-lens ML Yb-bulk oscillator
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